All of us in business as owners or managing partners are ultimately seeking sustainable growth and profitability, aren’t we? So, our key performance indicators (KPI) or key results areas (KRA) are chosen to drive growth and profit, aren’t they? Those KPI and KRA subsequently become the list of goals we seek to achieve. I assert […]
There are those leaders who become losers when Sucking the sauce of seeming special, Sanctioning suspect strategy Studying spreadsheets Selling spin and styles of slavery. They may be busy, but they are not engaged leaders. Because of the law of gravity They are the primary cause of Employee disengagement Poor performance Pathetic productivity […]
Everything is changing rapidly, isn’t it? In only five to ten years from now it is likely that artificial intelligence, robotics, and additive fabrication technology will have replaced many current ‘jobs’. Nevertheless, the future of work remains unlimited just evolved. How will you lead yourself and your people towards this imminent future? Your people skills, […]
Improving productivity is high on the leaders’ agenda. Scholarly and practical articles alike focus on the productivity outcome created by the relationship between inputs and outputs, debating only what inputs and outputs to measure. What are measured mainly are financial and product or service data. I think they are missing the secret reality. There are […]
Hierarchy of Enterprise Success© Within each of the above “bricks” of success there are related and inter-related requirements that ensure the integrity of each brick and the model as a whole. For instance the brick of Continuous Learning and Improvement includes the setting of key performance indicators or results areas, their measurement, performance mastery, innovation […]
The HR Manager told me that we couldn’t call the leadership development project “coaching” because the CEO doesn’t believe in coaching for leaders. The CEO has stated that leaders should be developed enough to not need coaching; that they wouldn’t have made it thus far if they were deficient. That CEO and his Chief Operating […]
We live in times of uncertainty, volatility, ambiguity, even chaos. Disruptive change is upon us all. We are emerging from leading and managing focussed only on spreadsheets and fiscal data. That’s because it’s not delivering the results we seek. We must embrace an additional formula not used by accountants and economists. Not their fault. We […]
Employee engagement is high on the business agenda these days as we seek to overcome the challenges of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. Every week we see brilliant tips to improve employee engagement. When we look closely at them all we see they resemble Frederick Herzberg’s Dual Theory of 1959, sometimes called the Two-Factor Theory. […]
We know how important it is for a business, any business, to have a market, access to money and people. But beyond those obvious three, there are three ingredients that really matter that we must also have. Let me give you a double case study to illustrate. Peter started his business as a sole trader, […]
