Saturday 27th May 2023 and yet another sad story about lack of governance and integrity within a big so-called ‘respectable’ organisation. This time (once again) PwC, but it could as quickly have been any of their level competitors! I wrote to Helen Fazzino (PwC Managing PArtner People, partnerships and culture) today via LinkedIn saying “As…
There is no doubt that working to help employees be the best they can be is the premium opportunity of business. Perhaps the premium deficiency in ‘management’ is over-management and micromanagement. I address some of that here. Some golden rules The need to be friendly with employees BUT not too friendly. The need to immediately…
Born innocent – probably not but just say if, not for long! So much is innate, from parents and their parents etc And then, there is the environment; starting in the womb, learning that regardless of how tired ‘mum’ is, it’s ok to stretch and kick and generally make yourself, comfortable, regardless. Then the newborn…
Addiction – Who I am today need be nothing like who I was, or who others said I was. Who I am tomorrow will be a collection of who I was, who others saw me as and interacted as if I was, who I can determine I would like to be, not want to be. And,…
There are many tools that can help break away from fixed thinking, the negative impact of paradigms on new thinking, the negative effect of group and pre-emptive thinking abundant in Command and Control negative environments. The topics below are selected at random as somewhere to start. It could be argued that there is no specific…
Meeting maybe the biggest Leadership challenge of not only this decade or century but potentially all time is the ability to work on The ability for leaders to listen The ability for leaders to ‘really’ share decision making The ability of those under management to find ways to break through The belief that people under…
Destined for War, Can America and the China escape the ‘Thucydides’ trap*? Graham Allison. An informative and chilling read, somewhat summarised as early as page 24/364 in “China is sucking the Southeast Asian countries into their economic system because of the vast market and growing purchasing power. Japan and South Korea will inevitably be sucked…
Skills Matrix /performance management– Skills Matrix – this is about dissecting a job position into categories and tasks, then using various evaluation methods, painting a picture of competence as to each of the processes within a task. This enables more effective delegation and much more effective performance review and general recognition of a person’s worth….
As I lay in bed thinking about the content and conversation of last night’s launch of the Association for Strategic Planning, I became engaged in thinking about thinking, as I often am. I introduced into that conversation through ‘chat’, the words / concept of ‘Intelligent Disobedience’ and the speaker, If you haven’t heard the term…
Challenges ahead for start-ups and what they need to prepare themselves for. © colourthinking 09.04.2020 Robert Toru Kiyosak writes about how people starting businesses to get a job. People also start businesses because they have some natural affinity and people ‘pump them up’. Obviously, there are numerous other reasons, made redundant and have some…
