ON THE BACK OF A RECENT BOARD REVIEW, WE’VE JUST RUN A ½ DAY WORKSHOP BASED ON PATRICK LENCIONI’S MODEL OF TEAM EFFECTIVENESS (SEE HIS BOOK “THE 5 DYSFUNCTIONS OF TEAMS”. LENCIONI’S MODEL PROVIDES A SIMPLE FRAMEWORK TO DRIVE EFFECTIVENESS THROUGH RIGOROUS DEBATE AND A SINGULAR FOCUS…BUT BUILT ON A FOUNDATION OF TRUST, SELFLESSNESS, MUTUAL […]
Yet another corporate collapse brings into sharp relief an issue which seems to be missing from the agenda in Boardrooms around Australia: Stewardship of Transformation. Disruptive consumer and competitive trends are not new and yet many fail to respond. I wonder then, how active this discussion is in the Boardroom? In my view there is […]
I’ve been inspired by a recent HBR article on liberating and empowering teams (Carney and Getz). The notion of a smarter, more agile, more responsive organisation is not new and yet for most, it remains elusive. In fact, given the number of failed attempts I’ve witnessed, I would ask “is it even possible?” Carney & Getz […]
Why is it that we invest so much of our leadership capability at work but leave it at the office at the end of the day? Why do we not bring the best of ourselves back into our home and our community? Are they not more enduring and more important than any role we play […]
Goal setting is a hard one for a lot of people. They either don’t know what goals to set or they choose goals they don’t really care about. If this sounds familiar, you might like to try my favourite goal setting exercise when you pause to think about the year ahead. “Your present circumstances don’t […]
For all of our skill at planning and driving success, Lady Luck wields the power to put the wind in your sails or dash your hopes against the rocks. In business school, we don’t talk about luck but the reality is, it’s inevitable. Surprisingly, Collins and Hansen have come up with an approach to harnesses […]
Leading in a volatile environment we think being fast, bold and innovative is what drives success. This week I’ve been reading “Great by Choice” (Jim Collins & Morton Hansen) and interestingly, the evidence suggests otherwise. Instead of innovation & agility, the research shows that a consistent and methodical application of a proven recipe is what […]
There’s a pervasive thought that’s crept into our business psyche over the years and it’s all about ‘the deal’. We’ve become obsessed with thinking up ways to make money, earn a passive income, clip the ticket… but tell me, where is the discussion about creating value? Why isn’t this on the management agenda or taught […]
Most organisations I’ve worked in and worked with, begrudge business planning. Not because they don’t know how, but because it didn’t add a lot of value last time they did it. But why doesn’t it add value? The problem lies in the lack of direction it contains and how it’s used once it’s created. “The […]
If marketing has been around since the 1960’s, why is it still so hard to get it right? For decades a lot of very smart people have been trying to work out how to market a business. And yet despite all that work, we’re still no clearer. Our efforts are no more effective. Results and […]
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