What We Learned This Week Lovely country scene, and I am lucky enough to be able to walk through this – with care. While some are enjoying the stereotypical beach and sunshine in August, others are working all the hours they can, like these guys near me. They are up against it too, with the…
Like you – maybe – I have been enjoying my holiday. But even then I think about the numbers involved. Sorry, can’t help it. We drove to Cornwall for a wonderful week, and my car’s computer proudly told me that the 448 mile round trip was done at an average of 45.6 miles to the…
What We Learned This Week A sign of progress can appear very quick indeed… I spent part of the weekend attending the Goodwood Festival of Speed, what some describe as “petrolhead heaven”. Some of this was spent looking back on periods of transportation history, like the 60 year birthday of the Mini, or the “New”…
There are so many predictions about the future business trends. Some idle surfing has lead me to an article from 1965 outlining strategy for the 1980s. Has our view of the future changed much since then? This article*, from the September 1965 edition of the Harvard Business Review, is by H Igor Ansoff, the Professor…
In a competitive 2017, I presume that you, like me, are being tasked, directly or indirectly, with helping clients achieve more for less. I have been conducting my own, non scientific and definitely not statistically sound research over the last 43 days or so… For the first time in many years, this year I decided…
Is this a waste of $356 billion? The Great Training Robbery. What a great opening line to an interesting article in this month’s Harvard Business Review*, which details why leadership training fails. Or at least it claims to detail why this training fails, but actually gives some great clues as to how it can…