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Accelerate the Growth of your Business 17 September 2010 Accelerating the growth of your business requires an evolved strategic approach. Businesses with strategic practices that are agile and responsive will be able to thrive in environments underscored by uncertainty and fear. The growth of your business is dependent on your capability to understand an emergent strategic process to be able to respond swiftly to the emerging conditions and make robust decisions in the face of uncertainty. This requires eagerness for experimentation, innovation and creating new possibilities.
Clean up dysfunctional power and politics: stop the erosion of value in your business 17 September 2010 The knowledge economy requires leaders to become adept at ‘cleaning up’ dysfunction and creating functional organisational social systems that effectively deal with political game playing and manoeuvring. The risks and costs to an organisations bottom line are enormous. People get hurt, brand gets damaged and reputation lost when organisational leaders don’t attend the health of the power and political system.
Complexity and capability determine organisational structure 14 December 2010 Most leaders understand that the work that they are required to do will be delivered most effectively with an appropriate structure. And they are mostly left to their own devices as to how to go about organising their people, deliverables and the structure of reporting relationships to deliver those work outcomes. This is an approach that helps leaders with one of their most important tasks - how to organise their strategic system to get the outcomes they want.
Create social capital through on-going public regard 18 April 2012 Create a positive and supportive culture while supporting other employees to be engaged and motivated through a subtle but significant shift in how you deliver positive messages about achievement and success.
Evolve your business to deliver more effectively 17 September 2010 Changing economic situations, changing social values, new products and services, all these demand adaptation within an organisation if it is to survive. Businesses must be responsive, agile and change their internal organisation, structure and processes to suit the emerging environment and strategy. If the leadership of the organisation are focused on returning maximum value to the owners and not looking at what gives maximum value to customers, our guess is that it will not be a sustainable business.
How to know if executive teams are working at the right level 2 December 2011 Practical suggestions to support and challenge executive teams to operate at the right level.
How unconscious projection limits strategic relationships 29 March 2012 Leaders working together to solve organisational problems need to have high self-awareness and high levels of authenticity with each other in order to achieve their strategic outcomes. Effectiveness requires that people collaborate with each other in such a way that they do not become enmeshed in or part of that problem to be solved. Projection is a major impediment to self-awareness and authenticity in strategic (organisational) relationships. It results in people feeling powerless and blaming others, all the while failing to move into action or make timely decisions.
How we help leaders create change 15 December 2010 Understanding how we resist change (how we stop ourselves from getting more of what we want and how we do not ask for support to mobilise into action) is the key to transforming our behaviours and creating systemic change in an organisation.
Immunity to Change: how you get in your own way 2 December 2011 Working to understanding how you get stuck, and how you stop yourself from moving towards what you really want is the single greatest action you can take to radically improve your effectiveness and happiness..
Maximise Intangible Resources for Superior Performance 17 September 2010 Leaders need to strategically manage organisational intangible resources (human, structural, relational), to positively impact financial, social, and environmental outcomes. Attending to the intangible resources and risks will materially affect commercial outcomes for stakeholder relations, innovation and financial/environmental sustainability. Strategic management of intangible resources= sustain-agility.