Perspectives

As you know, I spend time helping companies with strategy execution, whether that is through consulting, coaching or training. Strategy execution may be the biggest problem out there in companies. You can see some stats I've used to prove that assertion here. Lately...

I think what we have is a problem of the old rules for success not catching up with the new realities. Case in point is Joshua Steimle's artcle in Forbes. In it he says that the best advice he got was that accessibility is important if you want to be a good leader....

Unfortunately, technology is forcing us to be more accessible than we should be. You might have thought you had seen the end of this topic as I focussed on it in my last two blogs. Not so, I'm going to beat this one to death. I think I have to because I've had a few...

I did a bad job with yesterday's post. As with many issues in leadership there are politically correct answers and then there is reality. There is no one clear way to be a leader and in some instances like being accessible, there are pros and cons. The point I was...

I am reading a book called In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works and Shapes our Lives, which, as you might imagine is the history of Google. As a book, it is a marvellous story about one of the world's most influential companies. The book has a great story about Larry...

I have picked enough on Holacracy in the last few days but I want to ask one further question. What research did the founders do to arrive at this marvellous new management theory? Did they subject it to a rigorous analysis by their peers? Did they test out...

I've been having an interesting exchange with Olivier Compagne, one of the partners at Holacracy One. I wrote a post last week on the subject which was flippant to say the least and Olivier has been good enough to attempt to set me straight on Holacracy. Instead of...

Every now and then you hear of a new management technique that makes you ask - what are they thinking? For me the latest is Holacracy. "Developed by a former software entrepreneur, the idea is to replace the traditional corporate chain of command with a series of...

OK, just one more day on this subject. Pinkie swear. I can't resist the topic because I'm trying so hard to develop leadership development and management development programs that actually work, not ones that fail. And I must admit that I haven't cracked the code for...