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Management Consultant Mike Eldon

In a recent coaching session, my client and I were discussing his initiative to improve the ways in which feedback was being given and received in his work environment. As we shared how each of us approached doing so ourselves and how we encouraged others to offer and absorb suggestions, we emerged with a list […]

Management Consultant Mike Eldon

I was recently facilitating a session with a new board, helping align them with each other and with management and become fit for purpose. And as I was listening to their contributions and the reactions from management I could see that the newcomers, with all their fresh energy and enthusiasm, too often were unaware that […]

Management Consultant Mike Eldon

In my last article, I started writing about the lessons from David McCourt’s book Total Rethink – Why Entrepreneurs Should Act Like Revolutionaries. There I focused on what he saw as the personal attributes of successful entrepreneurs, and in this one, I will be reporting on McCourt’s experience regarding the business side of entrepreneurship. McCourt, […]

Management Consultant Mike Eldon

I’m always grateful when my daughter Amy sends me a book to read, including the most recent one I received from her, Total Rethink: Why Entrepreneurs Should Act Like Revolutionaries, by David McCourt, published in 2019. McCourt has indeed proved himself to be a serial revolutionary entrepreneur, disrupting the telecommunications industry in multiple markets around […]

Management Consultant Mike Eldon

Since writing my last article on how to influence change, I have had the privilege of listening to Costas Markides, a professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at the London Business School and author of several outstanding books on the subject — including his latest one, Organising for the New Normal. He was a delight to […]

Management Consultant Mike Eldon

Life would be so much easier and less stressful if we could influence others to do what is in their best interest by merely persuading them with logical, rational arguments. But it often turns out to be really hard, often futile, so we just give up in frustration. Efforts to influence others can be at […]

Management Consultant Mike Eldon

Eight years ago I wrote a column about Why Nations Fail, the book by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, and more recently I acquired the subsequent one by these two economics professors, The Narrow Corridor. It’s another global analysis of how liberty and wellbeing flourish in some states but degenerate to authoritarianism or anarchy in […]

Management Consultant Mike Eldon

I have written about change quite often in this column, and a few weeks ago I referred briefly to my own change anxiety in the context of my stay in hospital while dealing with Covid. There, during my two-month incarceration, I was moved several times: from this ward to that ward, and then first to […]

Management Consultant Mike Eldon

I have written before about the Leaders Circles I host with my colleague Frank Kretzschmar, where the participants tell personal stories around a theme we select. The topic of the last one I reported on was “Holding on to optimism – we can set an example”, and we certainly needed a dose of that optimism […]

Management Consultant Mike Eldon

In my last article I explained why it’s a good idea to keep a journal. I’ve been doing so for quite some years, at least hoping that my grandchildren will find something of interest in what I have written about. I say this aware that in the 1940s my grandfather Robert Bischoff kept a meticulously […]