"You can train skill. You can't train attitude." That's the lesson Barbara Corcoran learned while building one of New York's top real estate brokerages. When someone wasn't a cultural fit, she didn't overcomplicate it. The issue wasn't always performance. It was attitude. Because skill gaps can often be fixed. Training helps. Experience helps. Coaching helps. But a poor attitude is different. It spreads. One negative person can quietly lower standards, drain energy, and affect the people around them. That's why culture isn't built by what leaders say. It's built by what leaders tolerate. Of course, not every struggling employee has an attitude problem. Sometimes expectations are unclear. Sometimes the role is wrong. Sometimes people simply need support. The best leaders know the difference. They coach capability. But they protect culture. The lesson: Your standards become your culture. And what you allow today becomes what your team accepts tomorrow. https://youtube.com/shorts/mGuNhTnXQGU?is=f4zWvNojbTI2Yzmc

Great to see Mike this morning, and a few of the community including @Katie Humphrey and Mike was on fire 🔥 leading with 70 days left in 2026 to make a difference! I am hoping to make Mike’s mapping day on the 26th November 2026 gearing up for a great 2027! Thanks Mike for all you do in the wider business community!

Evening everyone! We are four days away from the Half Marathon for those registered and updates would have been sent to your emails as I have received along with your badge number. Please 🙏 for those who have booked in - please spend a short time familiarising the email along with the race guide. It shows all the details over parking, as some roads close early and the details over the event village, of which I aim to be at the Little Miracles tent ⛺️ early possibly from around 7am. You will need to register, bag as part of your number placed in the area, and in your designated pen ready for the start…. There is a warm up as well. So my advice is to get there early, so you can all meet up if you want to! My number is 07561 623563 but please 🙏 bare in mind I go off early than the masses in the wheelchair ♿️ and then we are to as Mike says run 🏃‍♀️/ walk your own race, but I do hope to meet at the end, and from 10 miles if you guys have not seen me, I will be looking out for you, but trust me, I will no doubt be at the rear and will find it challenging! Hope this helps and please 🙏 if anyone still wants to donate we are almost at £1,500 on the £2,000 target 🎯 and the link is in the previous post!

Hi I am getting the board of directors together to plan for next year. I would like to do a skills mapping audit and wondered if anyone has recommendations

10 weeks. 73 days. Roughly 20% of the year still to go. And yet, so many people have already decided the year is over. They're winding down, thinking about Christmas, making plans for January and telling themselves they'll start again next year. Why? You still have 73 days to make something extraordinary happen. You could have your best sales day, your best sales week or even your best sales month of the entire year. You could win that client you've been chasing, launch that idea you've been sitting on or finally make the breakthrough you've been working towards. A friend's football team, POSH (Peterborough United), scored in the 90th minute last Saturday and completely changed the game. Imagine if they'd decided in the 80th minute that it was all over. It's always too soon to give up. And here's something else I've learnt over the years. Even if you're not going to win, FINISH. Finish the race. Finish the project. Finish what you started. Because every time you give up early, you're reinforcing the habit of quitting. And every time you keep going, even when the odds are against you, you're building the discipline, resilience and character of someone who sees things through. Success isn't just about winning. It's about showing up, staying in the game and refusing to give up before the final whistle. So stop writing off the rest of 2026. You've still got 73 days. What are you going to do with them? The year isn't over until it’s over!!