Global Risk Management Survey
With the distrssed global economy, it has become even more critical to understand and proactively address business risk at every level of the organisation. In a survey by AON, less than half of the respondents report tracking and managing their total cost of risk (TCOR). This indicates that risk management departments are shrinking. Read more
The Vision of a CIO
The CIO’s strategic initiative should align with the company’s overall strategy, but from there, where and how should the journey take shape? Read more
Keys to Working with Alpha Personalities – Video
Alpha personalities present unique challenges for those who work with them and you need a different set of strategies for getting along with an alpha boss than for managing an alpha employee. Read more
Soft Skill Needs of Managers & Leaders
I’ve always stood by the belief that strong people skills (a far reaching topic in itself) are critical to the success of any manager or leader, whether they’re a Project Manager or CEO. Certainly there are those who exist without those skills, but their success and longevity are often minimal, as we shall see below. Read more
The Top 25 Management Tools for 2009
Whether executives want to increase revenues, innovate, improve quality, increase efficiencies or plan for the future, management tools have become a common part of how successful executives achieve their goals.
Keeping Top Talent in Tight Times – Video
In this Harvard Business video interview, Sylvia Ann Hewlett of the Center for Work-Life Policy discusses how to keep engagement up when business is down. Read more
The Importance of Urgency in Change – Video
John Kotter is widely regarded as the world’s foremost authority on leadership and change. In this Harvard interview he discusses why without a true sense of urgency, any change effort is doomed and how managers create and sustain urgency in their organisations. Read more
Avoid Leading one of 70% of Programmes that Fail
Guiding change may be the ultimate test of a leader because no business survives over the long term if it can’t reinvent itself. But, human nature being what it is, fundamental change is often resisted by the people it most affects: those in the trenches of the business. This means that leading change is both absolutely essential and incredibly difficult. Read more
Innovating at Every Level – Video
An interview with Erich Joachimsthaler, CEO, Vivaldi Partners. To innovate, companies need to circulate insights about consumers throughout the organisation and think of ways to revolutionize consumers’ everyday lives. Read more
Emotional Intelligence in Leadership Performance
Project and Programme Communications is more than simply reporting. The keyword is Communications and effective communication relies heavily on a person’s Emotional intelligence (EI). Read more
How the Best Leaders Build Trust
By Stephen M. R. Covey
Almost everywhere we turn, trust is on the decline. Trust in our culture at large, in our institutions, and in our companies is significantly lower than a generation ago. Research shows that only 49% of employees trust senior management, and only 28% believe CEOs are a credible source of information. Consider the loss of trust and confidence in the financial markets today. Indeed, “trust makes the world go ?round,” and right now we’re experiencing a crisis of trust. This crisis compels us to ask three questions. First, is there a measurable cost to low trust? Second, is there a tangible benefit to high trust? Third, how can the best leaders build trust in and within their organizations to reap the benefits of high trust? Read more
Where Will We Find Tomorrow’s Leaders? – Video
We won’t find new global leaders by looking in conventional places for people who act in conventional take-charge ways. Instead, look for people who can lead from behind to promote the collective genius of their teams. Professor Linda A. Hill addresses the subject in this Harvard Business School video interview. Read more
Six Behaviours of Winners in a Downturn – Video
In any economic downturn, in every sector of the economy, some businesses fail, some struggle through and survive, and some business owners and leaders grasp the upside of the downturn and emerge as winners. Read more
The Dangers of Nepotism – Video Interview
Whilst nepotism is quite acceptable is some countries, it poses dangers which include damaged morale when employees hired by family and friends underperform on the job or receive special treatment. This Harvard interview with Gill Corkindale, addresses some of the major issues caused by nepotism. Read more
Transforming Giants – A Harvard Interview
An Interview with Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Professor, Harvard Business School. Some multinationals, despite their size, manage to be nimble, innovative, and connected with local communities. How? By placing greater emphasis on shared values and making a positive impact on the world. Read more
Social Intelligence and Leadership – Video Interview
A Harvard interview with Daniel Goleman, Psychologist. See how you can use emotional and social intelligence to improve your own and your organization’s performance. Read more
Stakeholder Management
Stakeholder Management helps us ensure successful change. It helps managers assess and manage the environment around the planned programme and brings out the interests of the stakeholders and identifies potential conflicts to assign a level of risk or challenges to the programme’s success. Read more
Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life – Video Interview
A Harvard interview with Stewart Friedman, Professor, University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. Traditional thinking pits work and the rest of our lives against each other. Read more
Use Failure to Grow Your Business – Video interview
Rita McGrath is a Professor at Columbia Business School. Here she is interviewed by Harvard Businesss Publishing about how companies can plan and pursue an aggressive growth agenda with confidence. She believes this can be achieved by framing strategic growth opportunities, testing assumptions, and creating a culture that acts on evidence and learning. Read more
Developing the CEO Within You – Video interview
Harvard Business School published this informative video interview with Professor Joseph L. Bower. He suggests that to become an effective CEO, you should strive to work for companies committed to leadership development, and take responsibility for your own development on the job. Read more
Leading with Empathy
The likes of Harvard, Stephen Covey and other respected names in business support the fact that leaders need to empathise strongly with their followers and care about what they are feeling. Good leaders give people what they need, and not necessarily what they want and leaders must balance respect for the individual with the task at hand. Read more
Confusion in Changing Organisations
It´s amazing in business life, we sometimes ignore basic facts. For example the need to communicate. Communicate and you will survive. Read more
Cisco CEO Talks Teamwork and Collaboration – Video Interview
Cisco CEO John Chambers explains how abandoning command-and-control leadership has enabled the company to innovate more quickly, using collaboration and teamwork. Read more
