Secrets Of Executive Rockstars

I set some time aside this weekend to create a video for you describing the best method for structuring business documents that I’ve ever found. (Yes, that includes reports, analyses, slides, and even important e-mails)

It really does provide a template for creating world class business documents; it’s easy to learn, I can take you through the basics in a few minutes, and many of the large consultancies recommend this method to their consulting teams as THE way to create documents for clients.

Enrollment for our 12 week group coaching course opens on Tuesday, and we still have plenty to do to prepare for 200 eager participants… so I thought that I’d squeeze this in tonight for you. I hope that you find it useful!

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Many thanks to everyone who entered our ‘best career advice ever‘ competition to win my new Olympic Gore-Tex sailing jacket! Our judges sorted through the entries (which were anonymized) before picking a winner….

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Perhaps you, like me, find the idea of being famous hard to stomach…but there’s no doubt that being slightly famous can help your career and business succeed - if you do it in the right way. So I’m not talking about Paris Hilton or Rafael Nadal famous, I’m talking about Lars Hilse famous.

Who is Lars Hilse?

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This is a really useful tip for when you’re pushing the boundaries on your technical knowledge in order to deliver something a little more complex than you usually would – maybe a ’signature project’ – and things go wrong. How do you find technical answers to your IT problems quickly? My favourite resource is … (more…)

Today I’m going to introduce you to a technique that will enable you to take control of meetings, influence strategic direction and give you a real edge whenever complex questions need to be asked and answered.

There are few techniques that $5,000 a day strategy consultants rely on time and time again. This is one of them.

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With the crisis in the stock market dragging on, I think that everyone has been keeping an eye on share prices this week… trying to work out how the events that are impacting the banking sector are going to ripple out through the real economy to our companies.

But there is another reason why the stock market interests me. The pricing of shares truly reflects the level of confidence that investors have that a company is going to do well in the future.

Just like you, companies have to own a niche, a vision for the future that investors can buy into, and a reputation for doing something well, based on solid historical results.

So the question shouldn’t be ‘How is the stock market doing?’, but ‘How is your own stock doing?’ - your personal equity, your perceived value, the confidence that your boss, your colleagues, and your customers have that you are going to produce spectacular results from them.

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It’s not often that I’m speechless, but a few months ago I was, when I got a call out of the blue: could I come and meet a group-level Vodafone executive on Friday, in 2 days time, to talk about doing a workshop and coaching starting the following Wednesday. Well, OK - although I was a little bit confused about where this had come from - I hadn’t been selling anything to Vodafone, and I had no idea how this had happened!

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I’m really excited to be posting one of our first tips today. Especially as it’s not every day that you get to give away a $2.5 millions worth of advice, but today I do at …oh… roughly $500,000 dollars a minute. The subject, productivity, time management, to do lists, everyone’s favorite. (more…)