Success and Leadership

A “real expert” serves as a force multiplier to your organization, allowing you to quickly identify and correct issues and move your organization towards greater success. Unfortunately, in today’s robust internet world, the shallowness of the marketplace subject matter experts and apparent influencers is astonishing. It is like a "kiddie...

Success in today’s knowledge-based economy can be more effective when executives can manifest themselves as change agents who reshape, and in some cases, manipulate corporate culture to better apply knowledge and create competitive advantage. Building on the three aspects of corporate culture (collaboration, trust and learning), companies can attempt to...

A series of anticipated (extra) period profits is the ultimate result of a strategic investment. It starts with generating cash and after deduction of value differences and taxes, net profit remains. Period profit, share capital (embedded value – what really is present), shareholder value (economic value – what might happen,...

Pre-pandemic, businesses across the world were engaged in discussions on future of work. The knowledge economy, Industry 4.0, evolving labour legislations all were the factors influencing the course of work and discourse on the subject. However, post-pandemic the corporate world is witnessing not only a paradigm shift in work but...

Your organisation likely relies on talented technical specialists to keep it functioning. Engineers, software developers, researchers, scientists, lawyers, economists - whatever field they’re in, technical specialists are often critical, but also expensive, hard to hire, and hard to retain. They also have an underserved reputation for being bad with soft...

In 2013, I visited the world-class Pringles mega-factory in North America. The 40-acre under-roof factory was then owned by Proctor & Gamble (P&G). It was an opportunity to understand the systems, processes and disciplines required to run the day-to-day operations and the year-on-year performance improvements. Even among the global P&G...

Performance Reviews that Create Lasting ROI & 10 Considerations for Your Next Developmental Engagement? While many managers see performance reviews as a nuisance, using the right tools to assess how your employees are doing can help you weed out the “problem children” in your organization and invest in those individuals...

Companies must address many pressing issues as they navigate the process of bringing employees back to their offices and facilities.  These include answering questions such as: How many workers do we bring back to our buildings? How should we configure our workspaces? How often do we allow employees to work...

Sometimes no matter how much we earn we still face some difficulties in taking care of our finances. Thankfully, if we follow simple advice things will turn out for the best. Here are 9 ways to keep track of your money. Setting up your bank accounts A part of keeping...

Typically, business leaders, C-suite, and high-end executives of companies do not look for jobs. This is for a number of reasons, but generally good leaders are identified by other companies and persuaded to take on a new role after months of negotiation. This is typically facilitated by executive search professionals,...