With every challenge comes opportunity… yet to realise opportunity you must first challenge your sacred cows and your cake making.
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Cultural cows and cakes could close you!
Tagged with: culture, employee engagement, leadership, sacredcows, facingchallenge
Posted in Business Growth, business strategy, change management, Company Culture, Decision Making, Engagement, leadership, Strategic Planning
Posted in Business Growth, business strategy, change management, Company Culture, Decision Making, Engagement, leadership, Strategic Planning
It’s time to reset your Leadership compass.
The vaccine and the roadmap signal the time for a business leader to reset their leadership compass, as we look to the hope of tomorrow.
Tagged with: communication, Covid19, hope, leadership, roadmap
Posted in business strategy, leadership, Planning
Posted in business strategy, leadership, Planning
Key questions every Boardroom needs to answer ASAP
Even high performing, strategically sound businesses, that have been run extremely well over the pre-covid years, are having to reassess their futures. Some will become stronger, some will recover, and some will cease, but there is one thing for certain,…
Tagged with: Boardrooms, Business Planning, coronavirus, Covid19, leadership, Senior Managers, Skills for business growth, STRATEGY
Posted in Annual Plan, business strategy, leadership, Strategic Planning, The Boardroom
Posted in Annual Plan, business strategy, leadership, Strategic Planning, The Boardroom
2019 GREATEST HITS
So,Greatness is all relative and Hits ain’t quite what they used to be! Nevertheless, here are the most viewed Value Innovator blogs of 2019. #3 Strategy doesn’t have to be complicated – Lessons from a car maker. The May 2019…
Tagged with: culture, self management, STRATEGY
Posted in business strategy, Company Culture, Strategic Planning, Values
Posted in business strategy, Company Culture, Strategic Planning, Values
Strategy doesn’t have to be complicated – Lessons from a car maker
The recent May press headline of JLR (Jaguar Land Rover) British luxury car brand (potentially) being purchased by French PSA Group (Peugeot Citroen Vauxhall) just shows how quickly their respective fortunes have changed. In 2014 JLR posted profits of £2.5B, whilst…
Tagged with: Business Planning, Growth, leadership, PSA, Strategic Planning, STRATEGY
Posted in Annual Plan, business strategy, leadership, Reviewing your Business Plan, Strategic Planning
Posted in Annual Plan, business strategy, leadership, Reviewing your Business Plan, Strategic Planning
Disruptive Diplomat, Disruptive Influencer, Disruptive Danger – You Decide.
The morning after the Brexit vote I received a smug email from an American friend which said, “the Brits had lost their long-cherished right to claim that Americans were significantly dumber than they are”. I had to wait almost 6…
Are your Marketers’ T shaped or I shaped?
With opt-in GDPR on the horizon data bases are going to be decimated, marketing plans torn up, and marketers reshaped.
Recharge your strategy from your sun lounger (or swivel chair)
The benefits of taking time away from the business with family or friends is well documented; no commute, no meetings, no emails, and no deadlines. You have time and lots of it to do the things you want to do,…
Good performers recognise the worlds changing and acquire new skills to ride the wave.
As a Manager of a business no matter how big or small, you have a responsibility to learn, change and adapt to secure the future of the business through continued growth and profitability
Tagged with: culture, customer engagement, decision making, e-commerce, Growth, internet, New skills, performance
Posted in Business Growth, business strategy, change management, Company Culture, e-commerce, Increasing Profits, Management Consultants, People performance, Process productivity, Product profitability
Posted in Business Growth, business strategy, change management, Company Culture, e-commerce, Increasing Profits, Management Consultants, People performance, Process productivity, Product profitability
Michael Donaldson The Value Innovator - Improving the performance of your business 