We need a reality check on the many ‘studies’ that have been published in recent months about various business challenges. Their focus ranges from executives’ thinking time, organizational alignment, and capabilities for effective execution. These are in light of the dramatic changes that are foreseen to be brought on by AI. In the other court …
In my last post (via video), I spoke about the three crises we’ve lived through over the past 20 years. We can now determine that they each had five common challenges. The challenge I mentioned previously was the need to have a greater connection between the strategy and the people in the organization. Today, I …
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I spoke at a business gathering recently and had a chance to meet an individual on the Board of a large organization. This person has been on more than a dozen public company boards during the past 50 years. I later learned she’s been listening to management complain about issues that haven’t changed in five decades. …
Connect the dots!! What’s the first thing that pops into your head when you hear that? Perhaps you see a series of dots connected by lines that zigzag across a page. Do you see any gaps between the dots and the lines? An executive, Dennis, in a medium-sized diversified business, was asked “How do you …
“Leadership is acknowledging there is an elephant in the room.” Unknown Today I want to share a perspective on ‘management’, given the current state of the world of work. The Management Function, as I see it, is bigger than ‘risk’, a topic I have written about a lot. While risk is yet to be effectively …
