Thoughts on Leadership

Where Your Strategy Goes to Die #3 – Playing the field

You’ve put the ring on your strategy’s finger as a leadership team. But no sooner you’ve walked out the room than a member of the leadership team presses you with…

Where your strategy goes to die #2: 30% of 10 ≠ 100% of 3

I remember sitting in a leadership team strategy awayday some years back where the team agreed on its 14 priorities. … 14. Fourteen. … More than double the number of…
Accept bad behaviour to make it your culture

Accept bad behaviour to make it your culture

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…

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…
Capitalism, Consumerism, Shamanism and Sado Masochism

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…

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