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I remember when I first came to Asia, how do I deal with a Boss from a culture different to mine. I struggled for a while until i first came into contact with DISC. I quickly saw it was a way to cut through my cultural bias and enable me to understand the behaviours of both my new colleagues and bosses.… Read more
In moving from commercially focused businesses into the wider world, the question i am asked most often is : how can i improve my branding and marketing. This a killer question. Without getting into an in-depth review of the questioners specific challenges, i go back to first principles and ask them to think about asking similar killer questions to ask their marketing teams.… Read more
I believe the foundation skill of business
is marketing, understanding consumers and their needs,
understanding what we have to offer in return, and the
communication process between your business and our consumer.
I admire much of what Google does, and have interacted positively with the intelligent bright engineers they attract.
Their size and engineering approach- everything empirically proven – has created a wealth of data. And now some of their HR data has surfaced. Highlighted in an HBR article, Google have attempted to prove empirically the value of a good manager. In a data driven way comparing the data driven performance of great and poor managers (as assessed on their internal assessment- discussed below) Google was able to show a significant (Greater than 99% confidence) the significant benefit of having good managers.… Read more