Insights

Emperor’s new clothes? Unless you’ve been living in a deep and dark well somewhere, any change professional will be familiar with the drive to ‘Agile’.   Fans may laud this approach to e...

When leading your teams, do you crave structure or give freedom? In business, we have the desire for structure and control. The need for certainty, strong business plans, balanced business scorecar...

Spend Money or Energy? In these lean times decisions on cash investment is a real area of focus.  There are excellent and well established models for evaluating such investments ROCE, NPV, Bre...

Are you a Compass or a Map? As a leader it’s your job to set the direction and not to have all the answers (let’s face it you can’t know all the contours and obstacles on the way). I personally lik...

New organisation? New role? New team?  Just how fast can you go from being the new kid on the block to a fully effective Exec?  There’s a lot that’s been written about ‘hitting the ground...

 ‘Looking for the big idea?’  Lots of management books talk about creating that one compelling idea and to put all your energy and passion into this. But if we think about ‘big ideas’ or ...

Just how do leaders make a connection when dealing with multiple generations of colleagues? The chances are you have lots of age groups in your organisation.  From some ‘close to retirement’ b...

It’s an old technique but when did you last use it?  If you want to test whether your time is being well spent, then ask “why?” 5 times.   You will soon get down to whether something is a...