Successful Change

If it were up to me, Time’s 2020 Person(s) of the Year should be the frontline healthcare workers who braved the challenge and faced Covid-19…

Are you creating the conditions for new thinking and actions? Or relying on old recipes and analogies? In the face of an uncertain, ever-changing VUCA…

It has now been over three years since the British people voted to leave the European Union, and the time is coming for the actual…

f you’re looking for mediocre results, we have a formula for you. We define an enterprise breakthrough as an unprecedented outcome that gives rise to new…

The Myth of Certainty Decades of financial management and the need to provide some indication of a company’s future worth and ability to retain or…

Give complacency the pink slip. The first of this four-part Breakthrough Performance series explains why business results are stalled by false assumptions. When business results…

Layoffs suck… that’s the end of that story. Obviously, it stinks for the people losing their jobs. It stinks for those left behind who get…

You’ve heard it many times before: “Actions speak louder than words.” But where innovation is concerned, that can’t be said enough—especially to leaders. Recently we…

One of my colleagues was one of those cold-hearted corporate executives who, at one time in his career, had to lay-off several thousand people in…

The outcome of each economic crisis leaves some of us stronger, and some of us weaker. You could easily attribute your good or bad luck…

In this period of fast-moving changes in what we have taken for granted in our lives, it may be easy to fall into a sentiment…

Just be honest. That’s a simple rule but one that leaders all too often fail to live by, especially during mergers and acquisitions—and most of…