With the growth of the #MeToo and the #TimesUp movements, I think these are timely reminders of just how far we still have to go in creating businesses and environments where not only…
Maximum results are achieved when you are both effective and efficient! When clients engage me, it's usually to help them drive operational efficiency improvements. More often than not they have been…
Maybe it's the wheel and not the hamster that needs changing! Recently I was working with a client on helping them achieve some performance improvements. As we reviewed how one department…
Fast-growing startups can quickly outgrow their management As businesses start to become successful and grow, this can often present many challenges to them. Challenges that can be just as difficult to…
Nokia, Blackberry, and Yahoo. What do they have in common? They all dominated their markets and then, within a pretty short space of time, lost their top dog status. There is more to a…
The first thing to remember about disruption is that it's a two-way street. Either you are the disrupter, or you are being disrupted. This means I mean that if you aren't…
For years businesses chased the holy grail of Faster, Better and Cheaper to help them dominate in their sector, and beat the competition. Especially those competitors who claimed you could have any…
Either you're part of the solution or you are the problem. You might be thinking that the most important thing to know about culture is that culture eats strategy for…
If you don't step in it can damage results and your reputation One of the toughest jobs in leadership can be dealing with poor performers. It's never easy, and it's…
Having worked with hundreds of businesses, senior executives and management teams one topic that is always difficult to broach is accountability. Many people don't understand what accountability is, why it's…