10. Set aside time for exploring ideas, reading, self-development – or just day dreaming. Try putting this time in your calendar as a recurring appointment and treat it with as much respect and preparation as your other appointments. Surely you could find 2 hours a week for this? 9. Write a painted picture document – allow yourself the luxury of writing your dreams and aspirations down. Share it with your team. Keep in mind this is a ‘what will the…
Monthly Archives: February 2008
1000 more birthdays.
Yet another birthday (next Friday just in case you needed to know) is fast approaching and this always gets me thinking …. ‘Am I doing the things I wanted to do?’ ‘What is it that I always wanted to achieve, do, be, have, or experience?’ It’s this time that you review the ‘Things I’ve always wanted to experience list?’ The ‘Top 100 before I kick the bucket list’. The reality is that there are not 100 things on my list,…
I’m concerned?
I’m worried, fearful, or just nervous, because to keep growing is also to keep changing… and to keep recruiting. With every new hire there is a chance that the magic of what it is to work in a start up entrepreneurial business could change. I love the business of gift giving, I love what I do in a day and the people who work with me are fabulous. Our growth remains really strong (we have already passed last years revenue…
There is a time for democracy in business…
For anyone who is a regular reader, you will know that I see my job as RedBalloon CEO as delivering on our vision and values whilst keeping everyone aligned to the plan. My buddy David Cunninham shared this gem with me this morning – and given that I have just written a few posts on the fact that I am currently working on the painted picture document it is really quite fitting. "As a leader our role is to be…
What did I do at work today…
Oh what fun we had… for 5 weeks now we (Sarah our corporate programs manager) has been dropping hints to the team about the launch that is set for Monday. Sending them text messages with invitations to a Conga line competition. Special messages on tambourines left on peoples desks early in the morning. Connect 4, Jenga and Draughts challenge competitions at lunch time… Team leaders doing the rope course to get the pre insight into the contruct of the program…
Imagine running a business based on fun - that's what I decided to try when I left a very serious corporate career in marketing to set up RedBalloon...
If it is meant to be it is up to me?
I have used this mantra for years – always believing that I was the starting point for my own destiny. A friend recently asked me to ready Nepoleon Hill ‘Think and Grow Rich’ and I liked this poem written in the book but there is no reference as to who wrote it originally. If you think you are beaten, you are, If you think you dare not, you don’t If you like to win, but you think you can’t, It…