Meeting Management’s Greatest Challenges
Apparently there are seven major challenges currently occupying the minds of business leaders and causing them concern. At least, that is what the conference speaker … Read more
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People as Assets
A Google search on “people assets” yielded 664 million results! That is very nearly two thirds of a billion. Mind-boggling! (As is the fact that … Read more
Achieving Greatness: A Not Impossible Goal!
Ownership will help your people personalise success and fulfilment within the context or their work lives and thus more likely to optimise their contribution to the organisation. While it might not make them great, it will help them feel part of something worthwhile. You simply need to remember that, “The more fulfilled people you have the more successful they will feel. And the more successful people your organisation has, the more successful your organisation will be.” Perhaps even great!
Powering Business Success: The Sustainable Model
This very effectively illustrates the virtuous circle of the formula and the reinforcing aspect of its independent and inter-dependent elements. As people develop themselves they will increase their asset value, inevitably enabling them to make a greater contribution to the organisation and help execute strategy effectively. Note that, per the formula, disciplined execution is the multiplier and this will be boosted by their ownership stake which will make them more naturally inclined to do so.
Customer Experience Comes from the Hearts of Your People
“Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first.” That quote from Simon Sinek caught my attention this week. It seems so … Read more
People Matter: My Vision
I see a day when all people of all nations will rise up and live their life to their fullest potential. I see a time … Read more
How Management is Lobotomising Leadership
The divide between leadership and management is being perpetuated and exacerbated by our modern systems.
Increasingly sophisticated systems have accelerated business to the extent they have thrust decision-making ‘down-the-line’ and created what is popularly called distributed leadership or decision making. That is a good thing, but unfortunately, with their built-in and rigid controls to anticipate and cover every possibility, they have, paradoxically, also taken away the decision making capability from the people who operate them.
ROI on Talent Management? You’re Joking!
Self-development is an essential part of life. In fact it is an unavoidable part of life, but in today’s world it is perhaps more vital … Read more