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Are You Growing Backwards?
Question: If your business / division grew by 10% but overall market in which your product / service operates grew by 50%, did you in fact grow? Let’s look at... read more
Are You To Blame? Your Mirror Moment.
How’s your Latin? “Iniquissima haec bellorum condicio est: prospera omnes sibi vindicant, adversa uni imputantur.” Tacitus, Agricola Book 1:27 (written around 98AD). This translates to, “It is the singularly unfair peculiarity of war... read more
Do You Celebrate Wins, Even When You’re Losing?
On a recent engagement, an auditor was reviewing the customer feedback process as part of the broader Quality Management process. Towards the end of the discussion the question was raised,... read more
Aligning Values. Game On!
A number of years ago I did some work for a company who proudly told all employees that the core values (there were 8 in total) included: Courage Integrity Unity When... read more
Do You Remember Your Lollipop Moment?
Regular readers of my blog will know that I have written about what inspires me and about the subject of leadership. The video below from TED is both inspirational and about... read more
Why, Why, Why, Why, Why…..
Have you ever heard of the 5 Whys? The 5 Whys is a questions-asking method used to explore the cause/effect relationships underlying a particular problem, with the goal of determining... read more
Experience Matters as a Matter of Fact!
“I went to a man with a high reputation for wisdom — I would rather not mention his name; he was one of the politicians — and after some talk... read more
It’s Time To Make A Decision! Now What?
A number of years ago I was working on a project looking at improving the profitability of an apparel business. At the time the inventory had increased dramatically over a... read more
"My Job is to Make Arms and Legs"
We should be incredibly grateful for people like Alberto Cairo. The video below is from TED and is titled ‘Alberto Cairo: There are no scraps of men‘. Alberto Cairo’s clinics... read more
What Is YOUR Vision For 2012?
“People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming... read more
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The Problem With Profit!
Profit is everything right? Wrong! I could have called this article “what small business owners can teach managers in large corporates”, but: a) that is a crap title for an... read more
My Finger Used To Hurt When I Dialed The Phone!
My youngest son is 7 weeks old. I was thinking the other day about how different my upbringing was compared to the world he has entered. Feeling a little nostalgic... read more
Listen….And Build Your Network.
I recently had a phone hook-up with Jacob Esparza at tech start-up Huklup [hook-loop]. Jacob had contacted me after reading an article of mine – http://www.executionandstrategy.com/2011/04/my-no-1-networking-lesson.html. We had a great... read more
How Talented Are You Really?
We are forever being bombarded with literature on People Excellence (click here for examples). Personally I have worked with literally hundreds of people over my career and to be honest... read more
It Takes Just One Bad Apple….
Recently my beautiful wife gave birth to my new son. During my wife’s stay at hospital she was given fantastic attention by a multitude of mid-wives (staff)… except for one. I... read more
