Headless Chicken Vs Strategic Thinking
What does strategic thinking mean? Strategic is a term that has become extremely popular in this century- just look at the graph below which shows its use in literature over the decades Strategic means relating to the identification of long-term or overall aims and interests and the means of […]
Be An Innovative Business
How to be an innovative business without drowning in bureaucracy The 21st century business needs to be lean and responsive if it is to stay competitive and this can be difficult if it is shackled or tied up in bureaucratic red tape. Innovative business ideas are those eureka moments where someone throws out an observation […]
Bureaucracy And The 21st Century Business
Our love affair with bureaucracy doesn’t suit 21st century business. What’s that you cry? Love affair with bureaucracy, don’t we all hate that red tape? Well, we all say we hate it and if that were truly so, surely there would be less of it? History would seem to deny this. Our systems built upon […]
Do You Know How to Think? Or Just Think You Do…..
Do you understand the value of critical thinking? You are probably thinking right now; what a ridiculous question, of course I know how to think, it’s like breathing. You may believe that you cannot shut off thinking, well, actually you can and sometimes you need to. Did you know that according to the National Science […]
Is Your Company Mission Statement a Camel?
Do you need/have a company mission statement? Staying with the idea of K.I.S.S does your company have a mission statement and is it even necessary? This is another area in which business runs the risk of over complicating matters. Some companies can spend hours, days, weeks agonising over their company mission statement and the end result […]
Keep it Simple and SMART
The phrase Keep It Simple Stupid (KISS) was first coined by the US Navy in 1960 as a design principle. The KISS principle states that most systems work best if they are kept simple rather than made complicated; therefore simplicity should be a key goal in design and unnecessary complexity should be avoided. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle How to apply Keep It […]
6 Things Inspiring Leaders Possess
I recently did a talk at the Tower of London (see my Huffington post blog for more on that). The Tower was built by William the Conqueror and took 30 years to complete. Now William was certainly an inspiring leader effectively defeating the Anglo Saxon King Harold at the battle of Hastings and establishing a […]
Why Different Leadership Styles Are Needed
Different Leadership Styles Explained There is a whole industry around the topic of different leadership styles and a great deal of academic work has been done on determining which of the different leadership styles is most effective. In the Dewey library classification system, leadership is categorised under social processes, coordination and control. So, leadership is […]
What Makes a Good Leader?
Leadership Series – Part 1 Uncomfortable Truths Do you know what makes a good leader? OK so that is something of a trick question. Leadership is not a one size fits all concept- we need different leaders for different situations. Churchill, for example, was regarded as an inefficient peacetime prime minister but a great leader […]