Building Your Brand
As a business leader you invest a fair proportion of your time in your organisation’s brand – consciously and unconsciously. Your efforts are conscious when … Read more
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How to ‘Bazooka VUCA’
VUCA is an acronym increasingly widely used to describe the operating climate you, like most organizations, face today: Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous. This environment … 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
Who Didn’t Voice Their Concerns?
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
Shape Sustained Organisational Success by Building it into Your DNA
In 1991 Charles Handy concluded that the basic purpose of an organisation is to perpetuate itself within the context of the environment in which it … Read more
How do you view change?
Change is an integral part of life. So much so that we are often completely unaware of it. We simply wake up one day to … Read more
Business Leadership: Modern Day Pioneering
You don’t have to be a leader to be aware of the pace of change and the challenges of competing and surviving in today’s global … Read more
Management Evolution: Where do you stand?
You probably know that, if you put a frog in cold water and slowly heat it, it will eventually boil to death. This fact was … Read more
Nothing to Lose and Everything to Gain!
“Mine!” “No! Mine!” How often have you seen that scenario play out? I certainly found it a recurring theme over the holidays as I watched … Read more
Cats, Caterpillars and Business
Have you ever noticed how sensitive a cat’s fur is? Barely touch a sleeping cat and it will twitch where you touch it. It’s purely … Read more