Resources
Missing Your Financial Goals……Three Tips Leaders Should Follow
Willy Shih, a Harvard Business School Professor asks an interesting question:
Why Do You Need a Strategy?
Developing strategy takes time and resources (even if it is a one page plan!). It requires the time and commitment of some of your most experienced and important people in your company.
How to Attract the Best Talent?
High growth means recruiting; good recruiting sustains high growth.
Turning Complainers into Raving fans
If you put one pot of boiling water and another pot of lukewarm water into your freezer at the same time, guess what happens?
An unhealthy focus on winning?
It’s impossible not to admire the discipline, focus, ability to perform under pressure under pressure shown by our Olympic champions this week.
Is Complexity Hindering Your Growth?
Are you able to manage the ever-increasing demands on your time and resources?
7 Habits of Highly Effective People
At 79, Stephen Covey the author of the bestseller, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, died last week from complications from a biking accident in April.
Carry Out an Innovation Audit
If you are going to improve innovation then an accurate current assessment of your innovation capacity is essential.
Living and Breathing Your Culture
Last week we ran a seminar on being authentic to your brand values. Once you have defined your values the challenge firstly becomes embedding them in your culture.
Leadership and Management Funding
The Government is focused on supporting businesses with the potential for High Growth and this new service is directed very much at growth companies with the ability to drive through revenue growth of 20% per year for the next three years.
How to Drive the Success of Your Team
“It’s amazing what you can accomplish when you don’t care who gets the credit.” This quote has been attributed to Ronald Reagan and Harry S. Truman, both great leaders.
How Long Does It Take Marketing to Work?
I have recently been working with a client meeting to develop a new marketing plan for her business. What worked a few years ago to generate new business wasn’t working and she needed a new approach with different strategies.
How to Get More Value Out of Your Day
Being able to prioritise those tasks and projects that add the greatest value is difficult and does not come to most people naturally.
How to Achieve Outstanding Service……
In my experience, in industry across industry, companies are increasingly frustrated and disappointed.
The Secrets to Creating an Innovative Culture
A recent survey found that 80% of CEO’s rated creativity as the most important leadership competency. They said the business environment is growing so complex that it literally demands new ways of thinking.
Top 10 List for Growth Growth Firms
From the Fortune Leadership Summit in Atalanta – Jim Collins (author of ‘Good to Great’) top 10 List for growth firms
Get Clear on the Problem
One of the biggest problems that stops companies achieving their goals is very simple but often overlooked or mis-identified.
Your Role as the ‘Chief Energy Officer’
A key role of any leaders is that of a leader is the ‘chief energy officer.’
Facebook Culture at its Best!
What a great shot from Facebook HQ! And what a culture! The night before the IPO and they’re having an all night “Hackathon” where they “move fast and break things!” … that’s how new features and fixes get created!
Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Branson, Bill Gates & Steve Jobs – What was each doing (and wearing) at 28 years old?
Great article from Roger Hamilton;
The Power of Getting your Organisation aligned…..
Verne Harish in his book “Mastering the Rockefeller Habits” states that the difference between organisational vision and organisational alignment as drivers toward success is a massive 99%.
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Ducks Quack, Eagles Soar
No one can make you serve customers well. That’s because great service is a choice.
How to Achieve a Step Change in Meeting Effectiveness…
I am in the midst of reading a great book on Apple called Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple’s Success by Ken Segall.