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Strategos: lessons from the art of war

Being in enterprise today requires us to deal with so much more than a straightforward process of buying and selling. That has made strategic management a vital business tool. Consolidating the complexities of modern business into sets of goal-oriented activities for each part of the organisation to perform has become

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LEADERSHIP FOR DISTRIBUTED TEAMS

Leaders everywhere are grappling with their ability to be effective as more of their people wake up to a new 9 to 5. Despite the challenges, working from home has become for thousands of organisations a bitter sweet reality. It means they at least business continues and their people still

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RETAIL: THE FORGOTTEN INNOVATORS

Published in Retail Wire, November 26, 2019 Few industry sectors have changed as much in the space of five decades as retail. The people who seem to least realise it are retailers. What hasn’t changed: sellers displaying their wares, using their skills in merchandising, marketing, service and sales to entice

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TRANSFORMATION BLUES

The verdict is in: digital transformations aren’t going away. Digital technology’s ever-widening and deepening impact on the way we live is flowing on to the way we work, and the way customers want companies to meet their wants and needs. Competitive pressures mount as rival companies use digital technology’s reach

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HEADS OR TAILS? HOW LUCKY ARE YOU IN BUSINESS?

In a television episode, The Secret of Luck, from a series called The Experiments, illusionist Derren Brown tested the idea of luck.  Tracking the different experiences that people defined as ‘lucky’, Brown concluded that the more people were open to opportunities, the luckier they became. Luck is an incredibly important

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LESSONS FROM STARTUPS

Recently we have been working with businesses in start-up mode.  These are not necessarily new businesses – some are still in their infancy, but others have been operating for many years. There has been so much focus on new start-ups: the inspiring success stories such as enterprise software company, Atlassian,

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HOW ARE YOU (STILL) MANAGING PERFORMANCE?

If you are like most people, you don’t enjoy the performance management process, but you do it because you know its importance for ensuring the success of the business. Typically, performance management means doing three things: Ensuring people know what the business needs from them, and setting goals to make

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