Could your strategy be not to double your business / kill the opposition / become the biggest / ….. ? I was given an interesting dilemma by a CEO who I once worked with. He’d done the work with his leadership team to bring control to their operations – the first layer of our Build […]
Mission turns our diversity from divisiveness to strength
Back in the 1950s, after US presidential elections when pollsters asked citizens who didn’t vote for the winning candidate what their reaction was, the responses tended to be along the lines of “He’s our president, I wish him well”. Today, this cannot be said of most citizens of either the US or the UK. So […]
Honour
Honour. Seems like an old-fashioned word. “Doing the honourable thing” is mostly taken to mean that young men should accept their responsibility if they’ve made someone pregnant outside of a long-term relationship. Or a negatively-loaded word as used in “honour killing”. The irony and delusion of someone believing that murder actually brings honour. Really? Which […]
Great processes aren’t a substitute for great people
“Turn it into a process”. Most SMEs I come across with are either doing this, or claiming that they are doing it, such is the shame of not having all their key processes in place! For SMEs, I enjoyed Sam Carpenter’s Work the System. Along with The E-myth, it creates a compelling case for proceduralising […]
Relationships are in the “and”
I’ve always had a mantra about what good consulting is. It’s what I strive for, and what I say ad nauseam when I teach consulting skills. Great consulting is when we come up with a better answer than either one of us would have come up with alone. That means although I may have a […]