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A servant-leader focuses primarily on the growth and well-being of people and the communities to which they belong.

Here is an extract from an interview with The Growth Faculty’s Christine Kininmonth who asked me about the “best” career decisions. A mentor once explained to me the phases of a career being a period of education, experience and harvesting. How do you know when you can harvest? You can move between industries based on your expertise. If you are thinking of moving for money, maybe reconsider it. Move for the experience and the associated learning in the new role; it will bring

What you think your customers may value may not be the case. Here is a one-minute video explaining the stages of determining value. Many organisations think of building a digital platform and creating an ecosystem without truly understanding what their customers value. Value can be determined by; - Analysing what you customers are regularly interacting with - Where they are interacting offers a transaction opportunity - What are your customers prepared to pay for that value?

A year today after my first engagement and eight clients later, here are my dozen learning's; Regular information sharing (weekly) on LinkedIn will attract clients, i.e. weekly blog or vlog. Vlogs will receive more views, I have a range of one minute videos with Vimeo Your clients will be within your network, do a good job, and they will refer you on People buy you and not your company website, and you may need to set up a personal, professional website (like this one) Suppor

A one-minute video explaining the concepts of ”digitally dumb and numb”. Many organisations continue with non-valuing adding work into their digital business objectives; this is ”digitally dumb” and executives who are not aware of the consequences are ”digitally numb”. Profiling the work is the first step in realising your digital potential. #vlog #author #speaker #coach #mentor #thinker #digital #practical

A 1-minute video explaining why digital is about people and the importance of rationalisation of their job-related activities. If employees do not address these, the aggregate will create a digitally dumb organisation. Further If an executive chooses not to sponsor this, they are digitally numb. #vlog #author #speaker #coach #mentor #thinker #digital #practical

I delivered a keynote at Adapt's CFO Edge event this week. This is the third event I have participated with Adapt, the second for the year, and the other was one of their first many years ago. Some key takeaways from the event; Digital stretches beyond the technology team, and everyone is still learning how digital will play out Anxiety with the thought of embarking on a large scale transformation, organisations want alternative approaches Practical application of emerging te