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Making time for strategy
Do you struggle to make time for strategic thinking? Most of my clients tell me they do, and I also find it a challenge. It is so easy to be swept away by the 'now', the urgent requests for things to be delivered. The busyness can feel satisfying as we tick things off...
Optimising your ‘end of year review' for maximum impact
Late November is the time when many of us are reflecting on our progress for the year and updating our stakeholders.This can be fraught, particularly in an increasingly cost-constrained environment. Many recent working session stories have had a cost theme, as have...
When to not focus on the data
I was sharing war stories with one of my collaborators this week. An interesting story emerged where 'poor communication' cost a chief financial officer (CFO) his job. Why? Because he focused on the data. Let me explain. The CFO assumed his role was to provide regular...
New Podcast – CUTTING THROUGH
I am excited to announce that I have begun a podcast. Cutting Through interviews experts who have done just that. They have cut through with stakeholders who do not share their expertise to achieve material outcomes. This could mean ... engaging a multi-disciplinary...
On being a ‘human dartboard'…
There haven't been many times in my career when I have felt like a 'human dartboard' but teaching one group of lawyers most certainly felt that way. In a good way! There is something fantastic about helping people who are engaged enough to actually test me. They...
Do you score your communication 7/10?
I have been very much enjoying the preview version of Richard Medcalf's draft book, Making Time for Strategy.As always, Richard turns common ways of thinking on their head. He will then offer a super simple strategy that does what his tagline says it will do:...
BREAKTHROUGH THINKING STRATEGIES
