Are you trying to stay afloat and survive the storm? Then focus on the Beacon! Of course, everyone is anxious at personal and professional level with the COVID-19 situation. Smart companies use times of crisis to identify their current business situation, evaluate options, and if needed restructure or even downsize the organization. What will you […]
Why do some teams deliver exponentially better than other teams? Why are some teams greater than the sum of their parts? How can teams come-together and collaborate really well, acting like a single ant-colony or bee-hive? The answer lies in understanding social-capital and laying the groundwork for group-culture. Group-culture, or creating social-capital, has more to […]
When an organisation faces challenges from direct-competitors, the marketplace or from transformations in the far environment such as new competition from disruptors, leaders have no choice but to manage through these challenges and lead change. But change always involves high levels of resistance and risk. In the face of resistance and risk, leaders must embrace […]
Accountability Moves Mountains When talking with a finance director of a major UK-based retailer it was clear her major frustrations were: people not taking responsibility; senior managers and key employees ignoring ownership; and individuals avoiding accountability. Facing tough business conditions, she was seeing an increase in blame-culture and the number of excuses playing a part […]
Organisational Attention Deficit Disorder Is your enterprise suffering from Organisational Attention Deficit Disorder, leading to organisational craziness with a whole string of negative symptoms? Let’s first of all get a definition from the medical world for Attention Deficit Disorder: the core factors are high levels of inattention, hyperactivity and impulsive behaviour so we end up […]
How to read CVs Reading a CV and getting clues to the person behind it becomes easier with practice. A CV is a marketing document in which the candidate is marketing something: themselves. Are they paying respect to you, the reader, by delivering an exceptional marketing tool for you to read? This marketing document tells you […]
Your business plan is a superb discipline for taking ‘time-out’ and really understanding how you and your enterprise are positioned, set new strategic goals and plan tactical activities to achieve these goals. If you are seeking investment for an enterprise which needs transformation, launch of a new service/product or starting a new business you will […]
Strategy is misunderstood on so many levels and ends up wasting resources rather than ensuring resources are best-deployed for the present and the future. More often than not, we begin advising clients on ensuring they focus on ‘doing’ strategy rather than ‘having ‘a strategy. It is not about investing large sums of money on consultants […]