Stating the bleeding obvious… When I was in my 20’s I went on a course. The instructor put up a slide. It looked like this: His point was simple. To be successful create alignment. Make sure everybody is pulling in the same direction. It was such an obvious point that I wondered why on earth […]
When Does Real Learning Happen?
Learning… The real learning, happens when: You are driven by an intrinsic need to advance and not only by external rewards You ask more questions to get to the why of things — and then to what and how When you look for process and patterns in discrete situations And when you use your understanding to […]
Half Full or Half Empty
Which are you? I was talking to a rugby player yesterday. I don’t like sporting analogies much; just because you can run 100 meters faster than anybody else doesn’t make you a great manager. But he told me a fascinating story about coaching… An odd approach His best coach had a strange post match strategy. When […]
Solutioneering
solutioneering: səˈluːʃ(ə)nɪərɪŋ/ noun attempting to solve a problem or deal with a difficult situation without understanding it the branch of management concerned with embedding the latest management thinking as fast as possible a mechanism of creating activity that gives the appearance of progress without developing forward motion a field of study concerned with characterising a problem by […]
Busy Doing Nothing
I am a busy man An executive with a burgeoning inbox — or so I tell my wife. This week I… Wrote presentations Prepared for audits Attend stakeholder briefings Drafted investment proposals Wrote appraisals Reviewed budgets Socialised information Reorganised departments Hired new staff Brainstormed solutions Talked about customers Discussed automation strategies Visited suppliers Defined new […]
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