Strictly speaking, new year’s resolutions are rubbish. There’s literally no difference between Dec 31 and Jan 01 except 24 hours or one sleep (if you got any ;-) ) Experience has likely shown you that any resolutions you made were rather quickly forgotten or flattened like a pancake by whatever came barreling along next. Those…
7 Things CEOs Should Do To Turn Strategy into Performance
Being named as the CEO of a company means big responsibility. No longer are you responsible for day to day tasks, instead, you are in charge of creating success for an entire organization. For many CEOs, this type of role change can come as quite a shock. In the B2B industry specifically, CEOs have many…
Brexit – Opportunity knocks!
If you (or your client) are a young and dynamic UK based business and worried about the impact of Brexit on Manufacturing operations, Exports to EU or Supply chain operations – we may have a solution. Read on. Want to access a trillion $ economy? “We help young and dynamic UK based Businesses setup part…
5 Key Considerations When Assessing Growth Potential
Growing a company can be exciting and fun. Launching new products, winning more customers and entering new markets is a real buzz for most entrepreneurs. For some lucky (or clever) individuals growth comes easy. They have an awesome product, customers find it, buy it and tell their friends. Boom – exponential growth. However, for most…
Transformation Essentials
In 30+ years in the corporate environment, predominately in executive roles, I have been astounded by the inability of organisations to learn from mistakes – either others’ or their own. Despite huge anecdotal evidence of what can cause failure of a transformation strategy, initiative, program or project, companies refuse to plan thoroughly, involve the ‘right’…
What’s the Buzz? Authority to Lead
I thought it might be fun to give a type of “retrospective” about a main theme in many of the conversations I’ve been having with HIVE members lately. (And thanks to David Clark for prompting me to write this!) As an organizational psychologist, I may approach things a little differently than someone coming from IT…
I had an ‘aha’ moment yesterday…
I have been following with interest the productisation of sensors and associated technologies for a while. The trends are cheaper, smaller and broader in their capabilities. At the IoT Expo I saw how ‘Splunk’ can easily industrialise the whole data capture – validation – formatting – unification and storage challenge at scale. And this is…
5 Steps to Predictable Growth
Growing a business can be exciting and fun. It can also be challenging and demanding. Investing in sales, marketing, operations, product and finance may require additional investment, changes to employee roles, bringing in new people, new premises, more focus on process and reporting, more customers to look after, increased risk to cashflow and a host…
What’s the Buzz? Hive Communications
I’ve been a Hive member for … a week. I joined because I was intrigued by what @david-clark has been posting on LinkedIn: consistently relevant, thoughtful, original material that very much aligns with the values I espouse as an organizational psychologist. I am interested in helping individuals, teams, and organizations identify their needs, find ways…
Harnessing the Hidden Talent of Employees
There is common trend prevalent amongst organization across the globe from past couple of years concerning employees leaving away their cushy corporate jobs for seeking a taste of start-up life. Some of the key reasons behind employees such a bold step is: Live up the passion Stressful job Robotic routine life Lack of clarity/growth at…
