What contributes the most to making good competitive-strategy decisions – Education? Experience? Outsiders with new ideas? Mark Chussil, in a recent HBR Online article (read it here) shares some findings from data he has collected based on competitive-strategy decisions. Chussil has developed a matrix of decisions, highlighting the four styles …
Core Values
Monday, June 20, 2016What are your organisations’ core values? Not the ones that you say are values, but the ones that actually reflect who you really are? In a recent article by Nicole Fallon Taylor (read it here) she highlights core values and the role they play in our organisations. Essentially they are …
Only You Can Make Your Job Meaningful
Monday, June 20, 2016Melissa Dahl previews an article in MIT Sloan Management Review (read it here) by Bailey and Madden that explores the failure of bosses who attempt to create meaningfulness on the job for their employees. Surprisingly, the results are usually a fail. The authors found that leadership has little impact on …
Performance Management Reinvented
Monday, May 23, 2016Just in case you didn’t know, the traditional annual performance management discussion is on the way out. An increasing number of companies are ditching the time-consuming, subjective and demotivating practices for new ways of managing employee performance. McKinsey & Company have published an excellent article on this issue (read it …
It Doesn’t Have to be a Sacrifice
Tuesday, April 26, 2016Up until recently, much of the discussion surrounding corporate social responsibility puts it as either profits or being socially responsible, but not both. And on face value it might appear that way, however more and more organisations are recognising that the two are not mutually exclusive. Studies are showing that …
Stress Reduction Tips
Sunday, December 6, 2015The calendar year-end can either be a relaxing time for many, or a frantic period for others. Either way you might just take a few moments to think about the stress in your life and how to reduce it. Nicole Fallon from Business News Daily has collected a range of …