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Strategy Sessions for SMEs are a waste of time

Iyas A · Apr 13, 2021 ·

Strategy sessions in SMEs are usually a waste of time. Mostly because they don’t turn into what the company does. In my experience, it usually comes down to a combination of these issues. No coherence. The strategy is a smorgasbord of ideas rather than a plan to get somewhere specific. It prioritises 473 things. Everything […]

Generating activity makes problems harder

Iyas A · Feb 22, 2021 ·

“Generating activity is not a problem; in fact it is easy. The fact that it is easy makes the real problem harder to solve. The problem is getting the right things done – the things that matter, the things that will have an impact, the things a company is trying to achieve to ensure success. […]

Build Back Better means Build Back Kinder

Iyas A · Feb 16, 2021 ·

Build back better means build back kinder. With a special responsibility if you lead a company. With talk of a K-shaped recovery, where fortunes ascend for some while they plummet for others, it’s up to all on the ascendant leg of the K to look out for those on the descendent. Not (just) out of […]

Tactics come easy once principles are in the blood.

Iyas A · Feb 13, 2021 ·

“Tactics come easy once principles are in the blood” I love that quote from Josh Waitzkin’s ‘The Art of Learning’. He was applying it to how we display mastery as we learn, and I alluded to this previously when discussing how leaders who are at ease with their leadership and values can adapt fairly quickly […]

Don’t be a Should Shoveller

Iyas A · Sep 18, 2020 ·

I find that the people who should the most, often do the least. When I meet a manager who shoulds all over him or herself (an apt phrase at too many levels, but sadly not one I came up with!), I start to get wary. They’re usually loud with it. “We should improve how we […]

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