Physics, Psychology and Business
Newton’s 3rd Law of Physics. You might not remember it is as that but you almost certainly know it or have heard of it: “For … Read more
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Transformation or Reformation
What’s the difference anyway? That is the question I found myself asking. I was reading the Pulitzer Prize winning author, James MacGregor Burns’ book “Leadership” … Read more
How Silo-thinking Spreads, Smothers Synergy and Suffocates Strategy
Silo-thinking: even if unfamiliar with the term, you are likely familiar with its effects. That’s because the root of silo-thinking is differentiation and distinction. And … Read more
Strategy Gaps and Change Management Failure: An Insight
Do you have a strategy-execution gap? This may not be something you would readily admit, even to yourself. But, please pause for a moment and … Read more
From Change Management to Change Mastery
Change is a fact of life. It is also a major factor in it. Increasingly so. Both the amount of change and the faster pace … Read more
Why leadership is imperative, and how you can unleash it in your organisation.
“Management is not leadership.” Those bald words are from John Kotter’s 2012 updated preface to his 1996 book “Leading Change.” He makes the statement to … Read more
Slip the Surly Bonds of Misguided Management Theory
You cannot help wondering what management lessons need to be learned from the Grenfell Tower Fire disaster. Undoubtedly the Inquiry will highlight many. Yet it … Read more
Breaking the Barriers to Change
Change has been endemic in business for decades. Yet identifying, initiating and implementing it successfully has never been straightforward and results almost invariably fall short … Read more
Strategy and Your People: How to Sustain Success
Recently I came across an article in the July-August 2015 Harvard Business Review entitled, “People before Strategy.” (I am not sure the link will work, … Read more
Talking Heads or Turning Heads?
Of course you are not a talking head. But are you – or any members of your team – in danger of becoming one or … Read more