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Time to spring clean your partnerships
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Spring sunshine has arrived and it’s shining a light into the dusty corners of my house. I’ve got a spider family that has not so…
Practice makes perfect
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice”. Aristotle Is there anything more painful to hear than a prep kid playing the…
Pimp my pitch
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]When I was a little girl, I’d watch my mother getting ready for a night out. I was fascinated how the person who’d been toiling…
Are you ready to be a disrupter?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]These are challenging times. Nothing feels simple anymore. Things that we barely gave a thought to, like working in an office or dinner with friends…
The mindset for partnership prospecting
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Whether you think you can or think you can’t- you’re right”. Henry Ford Were you watching the Olympics and Paralympics? I’ve been in awe of…
Knowing what you don’t know
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]My 90 year- old mother is a very traditional English woman. She remembers the spirit of the Blitz in WW2, tends her garden and loves…
The four key questions your corporate wants you to answer
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Dating, job interviews and partnership meetings are all quite similar because they are conversations with lots of questions. Why so many questions? Well part of…
Penny wise and pound foolish
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]At my local market there is a car park with two dozen free parking spaces. The rest of the car park costs the princely sum…
Pin the tail on the donkey
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]During the most recent lockdown, I was playing a version of pin the tail on the donkey. This was ‘stick the horn on the unicorn’…
Making the first move
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“You must be an angel, because you look like you’ve fallen from heaven” Have you been on the receiving end of a corny chat up…
Why talent is overrated
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I have just read Angela Duckworth’s book Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance. It’s filled with evidence, case studies and stories of how and…
Hello from the other side
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Them and us. It’s tempting to think of corporates as hard-nosed, profit making machines. But they’re filled with living, breathing humans that are trying their…