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.

Powering Business Success: The Sustainable Formula

It is not about relativity; it’s about relationships. When you recognise this more people-centric approach and build your business model around it, you will witness the transformation it creates and bask in the success it brings – success that is sustainable.

What is HR anyway?

Only when you properly and fully align individual, team and organisational goals can you deliver a total strategy. Thus HR should play an essential role in executing strategy. If HR understands this, and can articulate it effectively, there should be no confusion about their role and the gap in understanding can be closed for once and for all.

Organisational Development is about Your People

Where do you fit on the chart below? Naturally the answer depends on what aspect of your life you are measuring. So let’s give it … Read more

How to Escape the “War for Talent”

Stop waging war and start focussing your efforts on the core issue; developing your people so they have the skills you need and the environment in which they enjoy applying them.

Teamwork: Fact or Fiction?

 “’Teamwork’ is an illusion created when the individual components within a human system accomplish a goal that is credited to the collective, rather than to … Read more

Organisational Development: What OD really is

It is natural whenever you come across a definition (on a subject that interests you) to try to put it into your own words. That … Read more

The disastrous consequences of mixed messages!

As I have always stressed, there are two distinct parts to strategy. There’s strategy development and there is strategy implementation. They are two very different … Read more

Sustainable Success Through Optimum Employee Engagement

Sustained success for any organisation depends first and foremost on its employees. Thus it seems self-evident that the more engaged employees are, the more successful … Read more