We had an amazing time working with Gleneagles recently, creating for them their first Management Matters Master Class.
Gleneagles, already very much committed to high performance, had just hosted a hugely successful Solheim Cup; the pinnacle of women's golf, so it was a real privilege for us at Think Distinct to take things even further and share our approach to leadership development wi...
Traditional Sales training doesn't work for modern businesses. Here we are delivering fit for purpose high performance behaviours on our Consultative Sale Skills programme to companies around Glasgow.
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The prevailing view of an organisation is as an economic machine, a machine for making money. In this mechanistic view, the ideal is to construct, predict, command and control. Relationships are linear. To make a thing happen, you need to understand the causes and the effects. An employee is an asset with utility value, humans are resources and a leader succeeds through exerting their will via com...
"Like the creative composer, some people are more gifted at living than others. They do have an effect on those around them, but the process stops there because there is no way of describing in technical terms just what it is they do, most of which is out of awareness. Some time in the future, a long, long time from now when culture is more completely explored, there will be the equivalent of musi...
