Thought provokers
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Do you have employees, or people in your business
Whilst researching my next book, I was discussing with a Chief Executive how he communicated the culture his organisation. He explained that they published the revenue, margin and profit from every deal on the wall. Everyone knew what the overheads were so that they...Doubts about social media in communications? This should convince you
If you have any doubts about using social media in communications and customer interaction, then read this article. The Dell Social media Command centre picture should be enough alone to convince you that social media is vital in the presentation of your organisation...Our capacity to manage, dictates our ability to improve the world.
Being a manager rarely gets the credit it deserves. Flicking through Gary Hamel’s blog on Management 2.0 for Wall Street Journal, I came across this excellent quote “Our capacity to improve the state of the world is ultimately bounded by our capacity to...Only five percent (5%) understand the strategy (Rubbish?)
This is a shocking statistic. Some research was conducted into why many strategies seem well conceived, but poorly executed. It concluded that whilst many organizations have some success with their strategy, almost nine out of ten organizations fail to fully implement...What is a good strategy? A behavioural view
There was a question on a LinkedIn forum recently – “What is a good strategy?” Many have taken that to mean, “What is a good business strategy?” – but I want to widen this, to be a behavioural view of strategy… A view of...
Don’t boil it down too far – You can’t swim in sea salt
Do you ask your staff to boil down a message? Just give me the one page version” they say. The danger is you can boil down the ocean until there is nothing left but the salt, the sea salt. And you cannot swim in sea salt. Let me explain. I was chatting to a...
