We live in exciting times for business. Digital is creating disruption across the board, leading some businesses to adapt and flourish while others (at best) manage their decline or simply wither and die. So far in this blog I’ve looked at what this means for an...
Last week I wrote about using the Three Horizon model and one of the key traits of a leader is to look forward and work back. The future is uncertain so how do you do this? I have referenced this book a few times How Google Works. The approach Google takes is to look...
In David Yoffie’s new Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs he and co-author, Michael Cusumano have reviewed Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs, strategy and leadership decisions and have identified five key lessons to...
Getting to a yes is just the beginning of the process not the end. I have seen this play out over and over in a business. There is a massive amount of effort by a large cross functional team to present a business case to the board. They get a yes from the board and...
“I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” Mark Twain One of the biggest stumbling blocks of getting strategy approved is not necessarily because the strategy is a bad or wrong it is that it can’t crisply and succinctly be...
Below is one of the best pieces I have seen around how to communicate, engage and inspire your team. Simon Sinek has a fantastic Ted talk that explains on what makes leaders inspirational. The answer is that the truly inspirational leaders focus on the ‘why’...
