Senior Talent Recruitment & The Loyal Servant Dilemma
Your company is growing the top line but some of your original managers are getting out of their depth. You know to truly scale the business that some of the roles of the original managers need to be redefined. To be fair your original employees may have performed at...
Creating Urgency & Velocity in Your Business
As the CEO of a business how do you develop a momentum within your team? How do you create an urgency to move things forward? I believe the key is simplicity of objective. It could be Safety – see my post on the Ballad of Paul O’Neil at Alcoa. It could be Product...
Value Propositions Change
Value propositions change over time sometimes very quickly. As the WSJ pointed out this week. The owner of an 11 year old, six cylinder Ford Explorer that averages 15 mpg could replace it with a 2013 Explorer that gets up to 23 mpg with a 4 cylinder “EcoBoost” turbo...
Judgement Call
As I read the trail of stories on the mismanagement of HP and specifically the acquisition of the UK software group Autonomy for $11 billion, I can’t help thinking what’s happened to good old fashioned judgement? As Susan Rice tries to explain the events...Operational Excellence For Exits
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