For “new behaviour model” read values or purpose. I don’t think I’ve worked in or supported a company that hasn’t gone through this dilemma. A “good” performer, i.e. one that nails their numbers or gets big wins or makes useful intros, but who doesn’t live the values or has a negative impact on the team […]
Leadership
Where Your Strategy Goes to Die #1 – A wish-list of serious sounding business words
Here are 3 strategic objectives I’ve seen more than once: Employee engagement Marketing Customer retention Trouble is they’re not strategic objectives. They’re topics. Functions. At best a wish-list of stuff we want to look at, get better at, or start doing. But not strategic objectives. For your strategy is to stand a hope of happening, […]
Capitalism, Consumerism, Shamanism and Sado Masochism
Karmic Capitalist Season 2… “We’ve become addicted to convenience, and it’s killing us”. So how do you respond? Well if you’re Katie Hill and Jarvis Smith, you launch a lifestyle site selling things. Eh? EXCEPT – you make sure what you’re selling is ethically produced and sustainable, and that your suppliers work with and not […]
The importance of the internal compass
“Our ambition should not be to win, then, but to play with our full effort. Our intention is not to be thanked or recognized, but to help and to do what we think is right. Our focus is not on what happens to us but on how we respond. In this, we will always find […]
You don’t lead organisations. You lead people.
You don’t lead organisations. You lead people. Obvious, but so often forgotten. I know many CEOs who are at heart very human and humane, but feel a peer pressure especially when in groups to do “what a CEO is supposed to do”. And they lose sight of the fact that in the end, it’s people […]