3 Questions that keep CEO’s awake at night
Category: Strategy Implementation
As a coach I often ask CEO’s and directors what keeps them up at night. It turns out the answer is less varied than you might think. While they all say it a little differently, the answer almost always boils down to a variation of “How can I implement my strategy?” Turns out business leaders…
Tags: | implementation
What To Tackle During The Summer Slowdown
Category: Blog | Leadership | Strategy Implementation
Summertime means holiday and a slowdown in the business world. It’s also a time when I see businesses sometimes panic, thinking only of lost productivity and lower sales. However, a slowdown can be very good for a company being a great time to pause and do a little professional housekeeping. Rarely do busy executives and…
Tags: | implementation, time management
How to implement change
Category: Blog | High Growth Ideas | Strategy Implementation
So you developed a great strategy. However, to deliver it successfully will require your team to change and develop new habits. Below are some tips which will help this transition. Explain why change is happening. Whatever the reason for business change, formalise it for your employees. You are asking them to modify their behaviour, but…
Tags: | change management, implementation
Making KPIs Work for You
Category: High Growth Ideas | Leadership | Strategy Implementation
Recently I spent time with a client helping them to define their KPIs (Key Performance Indicators). She had about 30 of them that her executive team was reviewing every week with very little action. My immediate suggestion was to narrow them down to the most useful nine to twelve. There was an initial reluctance, after…
Tags: | change management, implementation
Staying on track in 2015
Category: High Growth Ideas | Leadership | Strategy Implementation
By the time you are reading this we are about to enter the second quarter of 2015. That means there only 9 months left in the year. I bring this up because I’ve noticed increased activity in the wider business environment lately. When I ask clients how things are going, I’m consistently hearing “Busy”, “Crazy”, “Awesome”,…
Tags: | implementation
Is strategy or implementation more important to success?
Category: Strategy | Strategy Implementation
I was recently asked in a coaching session “is strategy or implementation more important to success?” Clearly both are important, but let’s go a little deeper. The last research I saw on this (led by Ram and Charan) looked at hundreds of CEO’s who had been fired in public companies. The research explored the question:…
Tags: | implementation, Strategy Development
Achieving Superior Performance Through Execution…..
Category: High Growth Ideas | Strategy Implementation
Last week I talked about a groundbreaking study (the Evergreen Project) of 200 management techniques reveal a surprising result: most techniques have no direct impact on superior business performance. What does is the mastery of business basics. To achieve superior performance you have to excel in four primary practices – strategy, execution, culture and structure. This…
Tags: | implementation
Why High Growth Companies Stop Growing….
Category: High Growth Ideas | Strategy | Strategy Implementation
We’ve all come across examples of high growth companies that suddenly hit the wall. However the reality behind many of these companies whether large or small is that periodic slowdowns are inevitable, even if the company is fundamentally solid. That doesn’t mean that the leadership team can’t do anything to slow the decline or reverse…
Tags: | High Growth Companies, implementation, strategy
Secrets to Growing a High Growth Recruitment Company
Category: High Growth Ideas | Strategy | Strategy Implementation
Tags: | implementation
How to implement change……
Category: High Growth Ideas | Leadership | Strategy Implementation | Team
As a leader have you ever tried to implement an initiative or an idea and received resistance from your team? Resistance to change shows itself in many ways, from foot-dragging and inertia to overt sabotage. The best strategy for leaders of change is to understand the predictable sources of resistance in each situation and then…
Tags: | change management, implementation
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