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How do you approach difficult situations requiring major change in strategy? Typically, military metaphors come to mind demanding a ‘commanding’ presence, ‘directive’ action, focus and urgency of activity. All this needs determined leadership to get the right results; right?
This was certainly my preferred approach as a task focussed manager — I got to work leading and planning and cajoling and arguing— on my way to ‘shake things up’.… Read more
In a TED talk by BCGs Yves Morieux suggested six simple rules to manage complexity and improve agility and effectiveness.
These rules are worth sharing. The world is getting increasingly complex. There are more demands from customers, shareholders and regulators. There is ever-increasing competition. The change is occurring faster and it is getting difficult to create value. Organisations typically respond by adding more rules, structures and scorecards.… Read more
I’ve been involved in Executive education (andragogic learning) for almost five years and have slowly built up experience about how we executives learn best. Here’s me at the beginning as I spent a lot of time talking and not enough time encouraging learning.
Here’s three ideas from my experience
Last week, I looked at why jobs are being robotised and thought about how we would fare.
This week, after doing some research i’ll identify what styles of work is most easy for robotics and where we should be focussing our attention to remain in gainful employ.
While automation will eliminate very few occupations entirely in the next decade, it will affect portions of almost all jobs to a greater or lesser degree, depending on the type of work they entail.… Read more
Losing a great employee is a terrible thing.
Form a Bosses perspective there’s the time and expense of finding, engaging, and training the replacement. There’s the uncertainty of how the new employee will work out. There’s the hardship on yourself and the rest of your team until the position can be filled. There’s the teams uncertainty if the new hire will succeed and work within the team.… Read more