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As a new manager, stepping into your role with the right tools and insights is crucial for both your success and the success of your team. This AI mediated guide is designed to help you navigate some of the most common challenges you might face in team management. By understanding and addressing these key areas, you will not only improve your leadership skills but also create a more productive, motivated, and aligned team.… Read more
Our contemporary business landscape is has increasingly swift transformations and growing complexity, driven by factors such as rapid technological progress, globalization, evolving consumer preferences, and a volatile competitive climate. Businesses and individuals must comprehend and make decisions amid a vast interconnected network of variables, often with incomplete information and under the pressure of stringent deadlines. Modern business is complex. Within this demanding environment, the potency of simplicity, especially as encapsulated in mental models, should be strikingly evident.… Read more
This is the ninth and last post I’ll make for the new General Manager… it talks about failure, how it’s inevitable if you are to learn and grow and how you can also be a become better at more intelligent when approaching failure.
Failure is an inevitable part of life, especially in the realm of leadership. New leaders must embrace the idea of failing in order to succeed.… Read more
As I write this I have concluded a week engaging and facilitating learning with senior executives, typically newly promoted to lead large teams. Their number one challenge is finding the time to learn, and while with me focusing on learning rather than on the urgent issues that crop up. They are all intelligent and conscientious leaders but they feel they have so little time they must be doing, rather than thinking and learning.… Read more
Partnering is tough; in 2020 i highlighted this in a post about partnering
I’ve seen firsthand how partnerships can create significant value for organizations, in fact most of my business life was in managing joint-ventures and partnerships, and my own organisation was a partnership. In revising this post, I have added a section on why i see trust being the essential glue in Asian partnerships and why contractual relationships tend to fail,
Partnering in business is a crucial strategy organizations can use to create value for themselves (and their business partners).… Read more