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…
INTELLIGENT DISOBEDIENCE – 04.04.2020 © The usual explanation of Intelligent disobedience is that it occurs where a service animal trained to help a disabled person goes directly against the owner’s instructions in an effort to make a better decision (about to walk into an unexpected hole). This behaviour is a part of the dog’s training…
Marketing and 4 p’s (or is it the magic 23)? – Time to expand our thinking Quotation – Marketing – Marketing Mix http://www.netmba.com/marketing/mix/ The Marketing Mix (The 4 P’s of Marketing) Marketing decisions generally fall into the following four controllable categories: Product Price Place (distribution) Promotion The term “marketing mix” became popularized after Neil H. Borden published his…
I am one of the guys who actually knows that women add value. I experience it whenever there are women in an exec or board group – they cut through and identify actions and scope. I also know they can be their worst enemy – as of course men can be, I can be. That’s…
Bullying through lack of connection; through the self-fulfilling prophecy – “this boy is not academic”. I proved that, my parents expected and accepted that, as I did. I wrote to private school headmasters and interviewed them personally: “I am writing to give you a glimpse at something you no doubt have knowledge of but from…
Yes, if you are the proprietor, the principal, the managing director, the head ‘cheese’, you can pretty much do what you want. Is that is the best way to get the best outcomes, well that is truly debatable. Command and control thinking was supposed to be finished but everywhere I go, I see it flourishing….
It is a mistake to see the people of the business as chess pieces. It is appropriate to see them within their current skills and experience and build environments where they advance. It will be that some people develop faster than opportunities within the business come about and they will leave – that is the…
It is a mistake to see the people of the business as chess pieces. It is appropriate to see them within their current skills and experience and build environments where they advance. It will be that some people develop faster than opportunities within the business come about and they will leave – that is the…
Too often insecure, somewhat inadequate management thinking see ‘the people’ as somewhat a chess game – well it just isn’t. It is people. So, we have skills identification and a matrix to manage development of people. There is career structure and people more as opportunities arise that match their skills and experience. The big opportunity…
