People are human, would seem to be self evident; yet do we treat our teams that way? Are they just organic machines? Of course not!
Sometimes as leaders we become so fixed on our goals and KPIs we forget we are hiring flesh and blood, flawed, inconsistent and subject to outside influences....
Do you have people in your organisation who don’t or won’t make decisions? Is there a lack of ideas? It’s almost as if they’re afraid. What you may need is more trust. ‘Trust trumps fear’ all day!
A recent YPO Global Pulse Survey of thousands of CEOs showed...
The marketplace is moving at a staggering rate, digital disruption is everywhere. Your business model is under duress regardless of your industry. Business models used to fail every ten to twenty years now it’s every three to four years; sometimes less. Recently Spotify disrupted iTunes,...
Is it hard to implement strategies and get alignment in your organisation? Are your team not engaged in your strategic direction and lack passion? Perhaps they lack ownership; and there may be a reason for that. “People own what they help to create.”
How inclusive are you when you...
Cutting costs is a simple way to improve profitability, in theory at least. However in the real world of a dynamic marketplace, imperfect people, unforeseen circumstances, collateral damage and unintended consequences, the spreadsheet seems to lie.
No one has ever cut their way to...
Do you find that small things slow you or your team down? Do you get dragged into issues that are really inconsequential in the scheme of things? What you need is momentum and lots of it! Momentum crushes problems.
John Maxwell has a great metaphor that I’m going to borrow, because...
