Leadership Values That Guide Business Strategy: Do You Practise the Way of War?
Sun Tzu wrote The Art of War over 2000 years ago. In recent times his text has been used as guide for developing business strategy. If we accept the premise that business is a form of warfare then what leadership values or qualities make a good General, or leader of people?
Continue Reading...Leave a CommentThe Day My Hard Drive Crashed and the 4 Lessons I Learnt About Dealing With Change
Ever heard of someone losing their lifetime's computer data in a hard disk crash? Well, it happened to me recently and I was surprised how this particularly dark episode reminded me of some key lessons about dealing with forced change.
Continue Reading...Leave a CommentChoose Your Suppliers Carefully. They Hold Your Business Reputation in Their Hands.
As a recruiter and management consultant, my clients are effectively my suppliers. This is why we take such care to make sure that the clients Mindset Group chooses to work with reflect our values. And here’s why it’s so important…
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Have you observed how some people seem to be able to cope with whatever change comes their way while others find it really difficult to move out of their comfort zone? What separates the two is personal resilience.
Continue Reading...Leave a CommentLeading Change: Mindset’s methodology for designing success from Day One!
Moving to a shared service is fundamentally ‘transforming’ your internal back-of-house functions and therefore requires a change strategy that allows your organisation to design for success from Day One. Using the Mindset change methodology, we were able to provide attendees with useful insights in driving change as opposed to simply managing a project.
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Change Management is one of the biggest barriers companies face when moving to a Shared Services or Outsourcing model. Many Australian companies are looking at business transformation initiatives such as these to achieve some level of organisational improvement. It may be the need to become more competitive on an international level; broader access to supply constrained skills; or the need to reduce costs and/or improve operational efficiencies.
Continue Reading...Leave a CommentThe only thing we have to fear is fear itself…. and the resulting poor performance and culture it induces.
Globally, the market (yet again) is in a spin….what will 2012 be like? How will the European markets affect our economies and what exactly will happen there….will there be a collapse of the economy? Will someone come to their rescue? Will ‘they’ wisen up and change the way they manage their economy, culture and employment? And it’s not just Europe, what of the USA market? Will it experience another dramatic, yet predicted fall? Whatever the outcome, it will not be solved overnight so the reality is that we need to manage our economy and businesses the best we can and put in place strategies to counteract multiple situations.
Continue Reading...View Comments (1)Is the next evolution of Change Management better integration with Project Management?
Where major projects are concerned, experience dictates that change management needs to be clearly articulated at the outset to maximise success and ensure a smooth transition to the new mode of operation, rather than added in as an afterthought or at a secondary stage.
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A study I read a few years back has always stuck in my mind. It was conducted by a US University (apologies for not remembering which), and the purpose of the study was to evaluate the ability of lecturers to engage students and better understand how they engaged their students.
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