management

Opening the Motherlode of Business Success

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What is the key driver of the success of your business? Pause and take some time to think about the answer to that question. When … Read more

Motivation: The Key to Building Talent

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“Motivation is the reason that people develop talent in the first place.” That line from Adam Grant’s book “Give and Take” really made me stop … Read more

How Silo-thinking Spreads, Smothers Synergy and Suffocates Strategy

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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

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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

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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.

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“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

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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

Who Didn’t Voice Their Concerns?

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If you think about it, no organisational failure of any magnitude can come as a surprise. Someone, somewhere, was aware that things were not right. … Read more

How Love at Work Transforms Performance

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“Fortune favours the bold.” Or, perhaps Queen Elizabeth I’s legendary rendering of the sentiment as “Faint heart never won fair maiden”, may be more appropriate … Read more

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