by Mark Donovan | Feb 5, 2021 | Uncategorised
In the early nineteenth century, Charles M. Schwab, who transferred the Bethlehem Steel Company into the largest steel producer in the world, issued a challenge over a dinner table to a consultant named Ivy Lee. “Show me a way to get more things done with my time and...
by Mark Donovan | Jan 15, 2021 | Uncategorised
We are in ‘lockdown again’. Our bars, restaurants, gyms and retail shops are closed. There are no sporting events or concerts that we can attend. We now have ‘increased discretionary time’. Even if we are working from home, apart from going for a walk or trying...
by Mark Donovan | Jan 8, 2021 | Uncategorised
I have made an amazing discovery from working with leaders on my development programmes and on my executive coaching projects. The people that do ‘the stuff’ get better. As a leadership consultant, a big part of my role is ‘holding my client’s feet to the...
by Mark Donovan | Dec 24, 2020 | Uncategorised
I left school at 16 in the mid-eighties to take up a bakery apprenticeship. I quickly realized that there was no long-term future in this business for me. The cakes I made would make a sword-swallower gag!. My mam had instilled in me that the only way to advance...
by Mark Donovan | Dec 18, 2020 | Uncategorised
If we don’t blow our own horn, there is no music! Forget your job title or your job description. Ask yourself: what do I do that adds measurable distinctive value and I am proud of? Value created but not delivered is of no value. Value delivered but not perceived is...
by Mark Donovan | Dec 11, 2020 | Uncategorised
We wouldn’t think of getting into a car and not know whether we are going to Dublin or Cork. But many of us become passengers in our own lives. Years go by and we never get out of the car and see where it is going or if it is moving at all. We simply sit in the back...
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