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Business Rocks: Playing To Win
What steps are you taking to find the right level of pressure, stress and risk that enables you to play to win and positively respond to questions
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Business Rocks: Skiing in Bad Weather
How are you flexing your project management approach to reflect the underlying conditions of each project and its specific needs?
Business Rocks: Q&A
When one of your team brings an issue to you, how often do you try and give them ‘the’ answer?
Business Rocks: Two Types of Time
How are you managing your diary so that you can carve out the opportunities that exist?
Business Rocks: Monkey Bars
The most successful companies are those that are willing to reinvent and forego past wins, rather than holding onto yesterday’s success
Business Rocks: Fresh Air
What steps are you taking this year to improve the flow of new ideas and fresh thinking in your organisation?
Business Rocks: Big Think Goals
To set a goal is to make a commitment. It is a message to yourself and others that you intend to make a difference.
Business Rocks: The Discipline Of Innovation
If you want your organisation to be more innovative, you must be prepared to invest in the necessary structures, disciplines and deadlines
Business Rocks: Boosting Your Chances Of Strategy Success
While big strategy meetings can generate huge excitement and optimism, the urgent demands of day-to-day issues can quickly weaken those feelings
Business Rocks: The 2 Types Of Decisions
As a manager, you need to balance your time between decisions about the past and decisions about the future.
The Innovation Strategy Test
There are many barriers to innovation success and managers must work on their organisation’s entire ‘innovation system’
Business Rocks: HS All 2 Predictable
Back in 2012, I wrote this Business Rocks post when HS2, the high-speed rail link between London and the North of England, was first proposed: A new £16 billion high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham (HS2) has been proposed by the government. The...
5 Lessons for Better Business Strategies
Having a clear strategy is paramount to the success of any business. However, strategy and execution are intrinsically linked
Business Rocks: Scale Of Agreement
How useful could the ‘Scale of Agreement’ tool be in improving the decision-making speed and effectiveness of your team?
The Cairngorms’ Rule
A lack of alignment can bring your organisation to a standstill. As a leader of your organisation, your role is to resolve the critical differences
Business Rocks: Follow Through
How could your business improve its follow-through, so that you can drive your strategy straight down the middle?
Business Rocks: The Power Of Diverse Thinking
How cognitively diverse are the teams that run your most important growth initiatives? And what improvements could you achieve?
The 8 Indicators of Successful Strategy Execution
Go through each of these eight factors with your leadership team and score your own organisation on a scale of 0-10
Business Rocks: Constraint-Driven Innovation
Where do you need to accelerate innovation in your organisation? And what constraints could you use as creative challenges?
Business Rocks: On A Roll
When it comes to finding examples of exciting, high-growth businesses, few of us would instantly consider a pasty and sausage roll business
Business Rocks: Talk The Walk
If you’re a leader of a team and want to coach and develop your people, you must be able to talk-the-walk, not just walk-the-walk.
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