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Jo Owen practises what he preaches as a leader. He has worked with over 100 of the best, and a couple of the worst, organisations in the world, has built a business in Japan; started a bank now HBOS business banking; was a partner at Accenture and brand manager at...- more about Jo Owen »
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- What Your CV Says About You
- Every attribute on your CV could be read as a failing by a cynical recruiter. Jo Owen demonstrates. by Jo Owen
- Blog posts 2010-02-03
- Presentation Groundhog Day
- Contrary to popular belief, there is only one presentation you ever need to show. Stick to these seven issues and you will have covered all the bases. by Jo Owen
- Blog posts 2010-02-01
- 10 Ways to Delegate
- Something so central to the role of a manager but actually deceptively difficult to do well. These tips will help you manage tasks down to your team. by Jo Owen
- Blog posts 2010-01-28
- The Seven Deadly Sins of Being a Boss
- We all have a psychological, as well as legal, contract with our manager. Those bosses who break that contract risk their best people deserting them. by Jo Owen
- Blog posts 2010-01-25
- The Pinch Closes Down Baby Boomers' Justifications
- Author David Willetts deftly expresses the plight of Millennials, who will have to support their Baby Boomer grandparents: the laziest generation in history. by Jo Owen
- Blog posts 2010-02-08
- Four Tips on Dealing With Big Shots
- Big shots like to look and sound important. They can look and feel very intimidating. I have discovered, through painful experience, four rules to remember about dealing with les grandes fromages: Most of them belong to the human race. Find out what interests...
- Blog posts 2009-07-15
- When Customers and Competitors Don't Matter
- For most managers, the real competition is not in the market place. The real competition is sitting at the next desk. Your job, bonus, promotion and budget is not threatened the moment MegaCorp's rivals start a Bouncy Penguin promotion. But that nice colleague of yours sitting next to you: that's...
- Blog posts 2009-09-15
- 10 of the Biggest Management Myths
- Longer hours? Putting people first? The pursuit of excellence? Pah! Jo Owen submits his list of the 10 biggest myths in management. by Jo Owen
- Blog posts 2009-09-18
- Why Smart People Fall for Business Fads
- Charlatans exist. That's no surprise. The mystery is why so many smart people fall for them -- quack doctors, snake oil salesmen and dodgy business gurus. Even as we part with our hard earned cash we know, in our hearts, that the quack...
- Blog posts 2009-09-23
- The Real Difference Between Leadership and Management
- What is the difference between leadership and management? I should know: I have written both How to Lead and How to Manage. But I recently discovered the definitive answer: leadership sells better than management. There are lots of people out there who want to be leaders, but...
- Blog posts 2009-09-24
- Lessons From the Umbrella Seller
- Eventually, we all become salesmen. The more senior we become, the more our job means persuading and influencing people to do things. We give ourselves grand titles like Vice President, Senior Vice President, Executive Vice President or even Big Banana. But behind the grand titles lies the reality that we...
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- Discovered: Albert Einstein's Lost Theory of Relativity
- Einstein published two theories of relativity: special and general. I can now reveal his third, unpublished theory of relativity: reality relativity. This theory suggests reality is relative to where you stand. Or, to put it more simply, people believe whatever they want to believe. If you want to...
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- How Not to Network
- I find large business social functions very difficult. They tend to be full of self-important people showing off and getting drunk: they call it networking. In theory, you are meant to be nice to people at such events. I've tried being nice and found it is very...
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- Getting Even With Cheats
- To live corporate life is to experience getting stitched up, stiffed and done over. The longer you live on planet business, the longer the list of grudges and vendettas can become. I have, over time, been cheated out of more millions of pounds than I care to...
- Blog posts 2009-08-28
- Should Leaders Admit to Mistakes?
- Should leaders be like the Pope and admit to fallibility, or like politicians and deny mistakes? At the heart of the problem is trust. We want leaders we trust. If they are always messing up, we will not trust them much....
- Blog posts 2009-08-25
- 10 Tips to Make Your PowerPoint Presentation More Bearable
- It is 25 years ago since PowerPoint first inflicted itself on the world. Whether the world is a better place as a result is open to debate. In the last 25 years we have discovered plenty of ways to use PowerPoint badly. Here are ten tips for making the most...
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
- Demoralised CEOs Need Stiff Upper Lip
- Apparently the CEOs of S&P 500 companies are demoralised because they have lost half, or $53 billion, of their personal wealth. Eventually, I managed to wipe the tears from my eyes after laughing so much. The poor dears. Perhaps we should organise a charity drive for them:...
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- The Obama Trap
- Any aspiring leader should study Obama carefully, and make sure they do not fall into the hole he has been digging for himself. Obama clearly likes to be liked. Like all politicians, he needs popularity. No popularity means no votes, means no power. But Obama took it to the...
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- A Formula for Avoiding Resistance to Change
- Change is something we all pay lip service to. Like flossing our teeth and jogging, we know we ought to do it, but prefer not to. For most people change means hard work, risk and the need to learn new ways for unproven benefits. But staff know...
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- Poor Generation Y Me
- Throughout history, there has been a pretty simple contract between the generations. Parents invest in their children, and they keep working until they die. The Baby Boomers have changed all that. The Boomers now expect their children to look after them while they enjoy thirty years of knitting or playing...
- Blog posts 2009-07-30
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