So you successfully steered your business through the recession—a significant achievement which no doubt took a lot of courage, determination and energy, and probably involved a fair amount of …
Confusing being busy with moving forward
It can feel like we're working very hard. We probably are working very hard. But are we working on the right things? We're responding to all sort of external inputs and handling them well - keeping …
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If it’s only when people are leaving…
If it's only when people are leaving that they can tell the truth in an organisation, then we have a problem. And yet that's often the way it seems to be. If it's only when there's no longer …
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Holding back evolution
Sometimes it’s tempting to try and hold back the process of change—we may think we are strong enough to hold it at bay. We may even be successful for a time. The trouble is... The forces of …
If we’re serious about collaboration…
Everyone seems to want autonomy at the moment—well, perhaps not quite everybody. The trouble is... Complete autonomy means no influence. If we’re serious about collaboration, we have to share …
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Falling down on the follow-up?
Where is the weakest link in your process? For many of us, it’s in our capacity to complete the chunkier action steps which are needed to implement what we agreed at an initial meeting. Not so easy …