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 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

Driving Enhanced Customer Experience

There has been a quiet revolution over the past decade or two. I am referring to the shift from “Customer Service” to “Customer Experience.”  This … Read more

Why Employee Engagement Efforts Aren’t More Effective

In his book, “Leaders Eat Last,” Simon Sinek expounds on how the human species has been biologically programmed for survival. He describes the chemical stimulants … Read more

The Productivity Paradox: Why Business has a Role to Play in Reshaping the Global Economy

Improving productivity is a key objective for most organisations. After all it is the flip side of greater efficiency. Or is it? You don’t have … Read more

Why Human Capital Accounting is Becoming Imperative

You cannot continue to look upon your people as an expendable, easily replaceable cost. If you want your people to develop and “share their competence” you have to enable this. Treating and accounting for your employees as human capital is the vital first step. Are you ready to take it?

HR: The New Frontier

It’s been 10 years since I set out on a new career path with the mantra “HR is the new IT.” For me it was … Read more