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Make some noise

How to make some noise and sense of occasion around the current ideas in progress in your agency.

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Portion sizes

What internal projects do you have cooking? How can you design them to be smaller portions?

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Slow down to go faster

Most agencies keep spinning up new internal projects, adding lanes to our motorways. Then we keep hopping between lanes until something (or someone) crashes.

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Problems are your friend

One way to select the most valuable ideas rather than just the shiniest, trendiest or most fun

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When ideas attack

A great thing about leading an agency full of smart creative people is the sheer number of ideas they come up with.

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Making kimchi

How to end up with a healthy culture.

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Wearing the same things

When there is a crisis, or any intense period of life or work, our brains are overloaded with decisions. This is particularly true of leaders, who have to make decisions for entire organisations as well as themselves.

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Plus one

What could you do that would make this coming week just 1 point better?

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Bossing it: a culture of accountability

A key part of being an effective boss is nurturing a culture in which the norm is to do what you say you'll do, and take responsibility for that.

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Bossing it: decisions, decisions

Think about how you can design the agency to make more decisions, rather than being the decider.

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Bossing it: Gather and radiate

One of the key parts of stepping up to be the boss is becoming a mindful and proactive communicator.

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Bossing it: Learning from crime

Instead of trying to motivate people into being happy, ensure they have a good motive.

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Bossing it: Training is the boss's job

Each agency needs its own 'Agency University' programme and, as the boss, you should lead the way on creating and delivering courses and modules.

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Bossing it: What you get done today doesn't really matter

What you personally get ticked off a list each day doesn't matter anymore — all that matters is what your agency as a whole achieves.

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Bossing it: acceptance & action

As the boss, your role is to lead and facilitate open, frank and safe conversations about issues. To challenge excuses. To steer the team towards accepting reality.

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Bossing it: Avoiding avoidance

Part of being a boss is keeping the business, and yourself, pointed towards the difficult things that need fixing, and actually doing something about them

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Bossing it

Groups of people do need to be led. They want to be.

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Burning the dough

I watched an episode of Shaun The Sheep in which he starts a pizza business by accident.

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