INSIGHTS FROM LEE BRODERS
Ideas for clearer thinking, stronger decisions and practical action.
Articles and practical thinking on business, leadership, career development, resilience and turning intention into action.
30+ YEARS IN BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY | MASTERS QUALIFIED BUSINESS MENTOR & EXECUTIVE COACH | INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER | BRITISH ARMY VETERAN | AUTHOR
PRACTICAL THINKING
Useful ideas, not noise.
Lee Broders Weekly Insight is a practical article series covering business, leadership, career development, resilience and action.
The archive begins in December 2019 and brings together themes from my writing, videos, mentoring, coaching and speaking, edited and expanded for the current website.
The aim is simple: give you something useful to think about and something practical you can do with it.
WEEKLY INSIGHTS
Lee Broders Weekly Insight
Effort and Owner Time: A Practical Way to Use AEROPS
AEROPS Effort helps business owners see where their time is going, whether the team is working effectively and whether roles still fit the business the organisation has become.
Adaptability: Lessons From Moving Through Very Different Professional Environments
Moving through military service, technology, entrepreneurship and mentoring taught me that adaptability is not abandoning who you are. It is learning how to apply your strengths in a changing context.
Personal Brand: Building a Clear Professional Identity
A personal brand is not a logo or a polished profile. It is the reputation and professional identity people build from what you consistently say, do and stand for.
Leadership Under Pressure: Lessons From Battlefield 2 Business
Pressure does not remove the need for leadership; it makes clarity, calm, communication and responsibility more important. These are lessons I return to in my Battlefield 2 Business resilience material.
Business Direction: A Practical Way to Use AEROPS
AEROPS can help when business direction feels vague, but the framework should support the decision rather than become the decision. Start with destination, plans and culture.
Overwhelm: What I Keep Seeing in Mentoring and Coaching
Overwhelm is often less about one impossible task and more about too many open loops competing for attention. The first useful step is usually to create clarity before adding more effort.
Transferable Skills: Lessons From Moving Between Military, Technology, Business and Mentoring
A career change does not erase what came before. Moving across military service, technology, business and mentoring taught me to look beneath job titles for the skills that actually transfer.
Followership: Lessons From the Leadership and Followship Speaking Material
Leadership gets most of the attention, but strong organisations also need good followership: people who think, challenge, take responsibility and support the agreed direction.
Business Growth Foundations: An Idea From Business Growth Blueprint
Sustainable growth is easier when the foundations are clear. One idea from the Business Growth Blueprint is to look at direction, effort, delivery and metrics before chasing more activity.
Mindset: A Practical Way to Use the 6M’s
Mindset is the first stage of the 6M’s methodology, but it is not positive thinking. It is about understanding how your current thinking is shaping the change you want to make.
Career Reinvention: Lessons From Moving From Technology Into Mentoring, Coaching and Speaking
Career reinvention does not require you to discard everything that came before. My own path shows how previous experience can become the foundation for a very different next chapter.
Accountability Without Blame: What I Keep Seeing in Mentoring and Coaching
Accountability should help people turn decisions into action. When it becomes blame, people hide problems, defend themselves and stop learning.
WHAT I WRITE ABOUT
Four areas. One focus: better decisions.
BUSINESS & GROWTH
Strategy, growth, priorities, decision-making and the realities of running a business.
LEADERSHIP
Responsibility, pressure, accountability, communication and leading when the answer is not obvious.
CAREER & DEVELOPMENT
Professional growth, career decisions, positioning, confidence and preparing for what comes next.
RESILIENCE & ACTION
Adapting when circumstances change and turning good intentions into useful action.
FROM EXPERIENCE, NOT THEORY ALONE
The perspective behind the writing.
My writing draws on more than 30 years across business and technology, entrepreneurship, leadership, military service, coaching and mentoring.
That does not make every experience universally applicable. It does mean the ideas are tested against the reality that work, business and leadership are often messier than the theory suggests.
TURN THINKING INTO ACTION
Reading helps. Sometimes a conversation helps more.
If an Insight connects with a business, leadership or career challenge you are facing, we can explore what it means in your situation.