WHAT GOOD LOOKS LIKE: DEFINING EXCELLENCE IN ORGANISATIONAL EXECUTION
What does good actually look like in organisational execution? This question is asked less often than it should be, given […]
Execution
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THE THREE CONVERSATIONS EVERY CEO NEEDS TO HAVE WITH THEIR LEADERSHIP TEAM
There are three conversations that determine whether a leadership team is genuinely aligned or merely appears to be. Most organisations
WHY MOST DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION PROJECTS MISS THE POINT
Digital transformation has been one of the most consistently overpromised and underdelivered categories in business management for the past two
HOW TO BUILD RESILIENCE INTO YOUR ORGANISATION BEFORE YOU NEED IT
Resilience is one of those organisational qualities that everybody claims to value and almost nobody builds systematically. It tends to
THE LINK BETWEEN ACCOUNTABILITY AND ORGANISATIONAL PERFORMANCE
Accountability is one of the most overused and least precisely defined concepts in organisational management. It appears in values statements.
FROM DATA TO DECISION: CLOSING THE GAP THAT IS COSTING YOU
Every organisation generates data. Most organisations use a small fraction of it effectively. And the gap between the data that
WHY INVESTOR RETURNS DEPEND ON EXECUTION NOT JUST STRATEGY
There is a conversation that happens in investment discussions that I find increasingly important and increasingly underexplored. It is the
WHY EXECUTION IS THE STRATEGY
There is a particular kind of frustration that high-performing people experience in organisations with strong strategies and weak execution. It
ARE WE SUCCEEDING BECAUSE OF OUR PEOPLE – OR IN SPITE OF THEM?
There is a question that sits at the heart of every serious conversation about organisational performance. It is deceptively simple,
WHY GROWING BUSINESSES PLATEAU – AND HOW TO BREAK THROUGH
Growth is one of the most seductive narratives in business. It attracts investment, generates momentum, and creates the kind of
THE FIVE SIGNS YOUR ORGANISATION IS UNDERPERFORMING ITS POTENTIAL
Most organisations know, in a general sense, that they are not performing at their potential. What they typically do not
HOW TO KNOW IF YOUR ORGANISATION IS ACTUALLY ALIGNED
Most organisations will tell you they are aligned. Ask their people, and you will get a different picture. This is
THE REAL REASON PROJECTS FAIL – AND IT IS NOT WHAT YOU THINK
I want to tell you something that most project management literature will not tell you. Projects do not fail because
WHAT GOOD STRATEGY ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE IN PRACTICE
Strategy is one of the most discussed and least precisely understood concepts in business. Every organisation has one. Most leadership
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN KNOWING AND DOING – AND WHY IT COSTS ORGANISATIONS MILLIONS
There is a concept in management consulting known as key-person dependency – the situation where a single individual, or a
WHAT DOES IT ACTUALLY MEAN TO BE A HIGH-PERFORMANCE ORGANISATION?
Ask a hundred business leaders what high performance looks like in an organisation and you will get a hundred different
WHY AI TOOLS ARE NOT SOLVING YOUR EXECUTION PROBLEM
The headlines about artificial intelligence in business tend to follow a predictable pattern. A large language model produces an impressive
WHY MOST ORGANISATIONS STRUGGLE TO DELIVER THEIR STRATEGY – AND OFTEN DON’T REALISE IT
There is a question I find myself asking in almost every organisation I work with. It is not a complicated