If you weren’t personally active in the technical process of your specific business, what else could you be doing? If you weren’t doing “busy-stuff”, what other things would you do? If you weren’t in meetings (for meetings-sake), who would you decide to visit? And, what would that be worth to you and your business? If [...]
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Improving Organisational Business Performance: CPA Hobart
This week I went to Hobart, Tasmania to present a full-day program for CPA Australia on Improving Individual and Organisational Performance. The program provided useful and useable insights including: Creating and implementing intelligent strategies for future business growth. Change Management – What it is, what it is not, and what has to be done in [...]
Friday Redux No.10: Are you a Dragon Slayer?
Map makers would place a sketch of a dragon at the edges of the “known world” to indicate that any explorer or sailor would be entering unknown territory, and to do so at their own risk. The famous Lenox Globe (ca. 1503-07) made of copper, has the phrase “HC SVNT DRACONES” on the eastern coast [...]
Weekly Wisdom No.90: Getting people to listen
Is the CEO obliged to listen to a minor shareholder with the same attention she focuses on a significant institutional investor? Does a recruitment consulting firm have an obligation to study every RFP/PSA that arises? Does every major accounting firm need to pitch for every audit that’s on offer? In most situations, I’d argue, you [...]
Stupid business thinking by Qantas and unions
“If I was a person considering travel over the period up until Christmas, I’d probably be looking at airlines other than Qantas.”Steve Purvinas, federal secretary of the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association
Stupid business thinking by Qantas and the unions involved just gets worse every day. The latest union tactic, which supports the premise that most union bosses have zero understanding of commerce, is to warn passengers away from doing business with their own employer. One that employs thousands of its own members! UNIONS have warned travellers [...]
Business can profit from patterns
Patterns are a specific way to generate ideas. The poet, Alexander Pope said, “Order is heav’n’s first law”. When people speak of intelligence they generally may be referring to our ability to notice, identify and recognise the order in the form of patterns. Examples to give some context to this include: 1. Cycles: Plankton yields [...]
Business is responsible for its own results
Missed it by that much …. At 211 degrees Fahrenheit, water is hot. At 212 degrees Fahrenheit, it boils. From boiling water you get steam, which can power an electricity power station. One extra degree makes an awful lot of difference in results and outcomes. The average margin of victory in major golf tournaments in [...]
Better Business Improvement in 5
Be clear about what you want from your business and the changes you make to create improvements. Design and implement effective methods and processes to accomplish these improvements, all the while being focused on the results not simply the activity. Keep raising the bar. Innovation, improvement and ingenuity trumps solely solving problems. Continuously strive for [...]
The defining aspect of competition by Craig Landes
Words and language fascinate me. One reason for that interest has to do with meaning, and how easily sentences can mean entirely different things when emphasis or arrangement change. Consider, “I told only her that I loved her” versus, “I only told her that I loved her.” Now think about the title to this topic, [...]
Strategic success by eliminating execution failures
Now is the time for organisations to be seriously setting their future strategy for 2012-2015. Setting strategy is neglected by many business owners and CEOs because execution failures have given the process a negative stigma. Through my observations of many organisations around the world over many years, I have identified the most frequent and obvious [...]
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