Click on the link to read my article, How To Avoid Crisis-Led Cost Cutting, which has just been posted on BNET.
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Click on the link to read my article, How To Avoid Crisis-Led Cost Cutting, which has just been posted on BNET.
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I was recently interviewed and quoted on BNET for an article called Why Women Aren’t Making It To The Board
In many ways this is an old, familiar story, but why do you think that women are still in short supply along the executive corridor, and what, if anything, do you think should be done about it?
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Click on the link to read my article, Business Objectives Aren’t Just For Christmas, which has just been posted on BNET.
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Click on the link to read my article, Overcoming Your Will To Win, which has just been posted on BNET.
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There is a Japanese saying that translates, ‘you can’t chase two hares’. If a top-class hunting dog chases after a hare it has a 10% chance of catching it. But if the dog hedges its bets and tries to chase two at once, its success rate is reduced to nil. The dog quickly learns that 10% is the way to go!
How many hares are you currently chasing?
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Click on the link to read my article, Take The Business Tool Fadaholic Test, which has just been posted on BNET.
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As the CEO of your organisation, you are in a unique position to guide the development and delivery of your strategy. In my experience, the business leaders who are best able to tackle and drive strategy are those who display the following eight behaviours and characteristics:
Which of these characteristics do you share, and where do you need to review your current behaviours?
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A couple of things happened yesterday to remind me that, when it comes to business, failure is seldom fatal.
First, I read Luke Johnson’s article in the FT, which argued that setbacks and failures were the crucibles in which great business leaders are forged. Far from being the death of executive careers, Johnson argues that they can, with resilience and commitment, be their launch pad.
Second, and far more memorably, I had a phone conversation with the ex-boss who made me redundant over three years ago.
During the course of our conversation, we discussed the possibility of me helping this manager’s team develop a new, more radical growth strategy.
We may or may not end up working together (although I would be more than happy to help). The big lesson for me from this, however, is that our reputations and careers are not written in stone, but are more like a garden.
With careful nurturing and pruning, gardens bloom and prosper and are more than able to withstand periodic frosts, dry spells and floods. Healthy growth will soon reappear.
Our careers are similar. The odd setback may hurt our ego, and possibly our wallet, but the experience from failure can be invaluable.
And careers, like gardens, which are immaculately groomed are, well, a bit boring aren’t they?
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Click on the link to read my article, Lessons From BA and Royal Mail: Strike Now, Or Strikes Later, which has just been posted on BNET.
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