I have just finished reading John Boyle and Kevin Klustner’s FC Expert blog piece entitled Collective Leadership Drives Sustainable Growth. The article talks to the point that it is no longer simply about making the right decision. More often, it is about understanding the trade-offs and ensuring decisions are made broadly across the company in [...]
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Learning from experience? Things I would do differently?
I have just read the latest blog post from @LisaPetrilli entitled “The Number One Thing CEOs Wish They’d Done Differently. “ I totally agree — in several previous roles I wish I had put talent first. Hopefully I have learnt from my previous mistakes! My business is currently in transition. We are moving from being [...]
What are your core values?
Today I initiated a conversation with my senior team. I said that I felt we needed to have a clearer, more concise vision for the company. Having recently read Jim Collins and Jerry Porras’ Harvard Business Review paper entitled “Building Your Company’s Vision” it reminded me that too often a company’s vision statement is diluted [...]
The Challenges of Transitioning from Start-Up to Grown-Up
Those of us that have experienced the full spectrum of company type; from Early-Stage to SME, to Mid-Market and on up to the Global Enterprise will realise that there are three distinct phases that companies pass through. Initially, the focus is on figuring out what we are going to sell and to whom? Once this [...]
Does the choice of technology lead to project failure?
During my long and varied career I have been involved in a number of significant IT projects. As a software development manager for Prime Computer (remember them?) in the late 70’s and early 80’s I led large and varied teams focused on the next release of the Primos operating system. Later in my career, as [...]
Learning from our Clients
Last week my feet never touched the ground. Sunday night saw me in Manchester and Monday I visited a client in Speke, Liverpool. On Tuesday, after an early start (4am), I visited a new partner company in Budapest only to return to the UK that evening so that I could be at a client site [...]
Why do we waste time and money attending meetings and getting the basics wrong?
Johnnie Moore in his latest weblog discusses Conference ruts. He begins by quoting Harold Jarche who makes a number of interesting comments on the frustrations we all encounter when we attend conferences. Significance is given to the issue of problems being presented in a plenary session and then immediately being asked to comment and brainstorm [...]
What are the roadblocks of change?
John P. Kotter, in his latest book  A Sense of Urgency [Harvard Business Press, 2008] cites two reasons why, by his calculation, 70% of Business change either fails to deliver or is never instigated in the first place. These two reasons are complacency and false urgency. He believes that complacent people do not realise they [...]
It is time to play the long game!
We seem to be in a downward spiral. I hear people all around me firmly focused on short-term recessionary issues. How often have you heard a conversation that starts “I’ve never known it so tough. I have had to cut my cost base by 40%, lay 25% of my staff off and my pipeline has [...]
Can an ERP Installation take your company down?
Last week I had the pleasure of listening to Phil Gilbert, Lombardi Software‘s CTO at the Lombardi European Partner Conference in south-west France. During his keynote, Phil quoted a VC friend as saying “We look for companies doing Oracle ERP installations because we know they will probably go bankrupt soon and then we can buy them on [...]
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