HOW CONSULTING FIRMS CAN DELIVER MORE VALUE WITH LESS RISK
The professional services industry is at an inflection point that most firms are not yet taking seriously enough. The value […]
Organisational Performance
Articles focused on improving organisational outcomes through leadership, execution, and alignment.
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
WHAT HAPPENS TO AN ORGANISATION WHEN ITS BEST PEOPLE LEAVE
The moment when a key person leaves an organisation is rarely the moment when the real impact becomes visible. The
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.
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
HOW TO BUILD A HIGH-PERFORMANCE CULTURE WITHOUT BURNING PEOPLE OUT
High performance and burnout are not opposites. In many organisations, they are consequences of the same underlying condition – a
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
WHY MOST AI IMPLEMENTATIONS FAIL TO DELIVER
The promise of artificial intelligence in business has always been straightforward: better decisions, faster execution, improved outcomes. The reality, for
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
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
THE HIDDEN COST OF POOR DECISION-MAKING IN GROWING BUSINESSES
There is a number that organisations rarely calculate and almost never discuss publicly. It is the cost of poor decision-making
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