Why Budgets/AOPs Fail
As we rush towards fall and Q4, every business enters budget season. Large and small businesses alike, we dive deep into the annual ritual of agreeing an operating budget. You’ll see a million blog posts on how to create them. So instead I thought I’d...
Integration Success – The M&A Holy Grail
Acquisitions are often a disappointment in the eyes of the acquirer (forget what the seller thinks for a moment). The deal objectives are often not met. The strategic benefits fail to materialize. Acquirers buy what’s up for sale instead of what really fits their...
Driving Progress – Essential Project Management Checklist
We all believe we can multitask. We can’t. See this simple test and article explaining why. Link. That’s the first “landscape” point I want to make. The second point to make is that it’s much easier collecting related actions around themes. Let’s take a few examples....
An Operational Checklist – 24 Months Pre-Sale
Last week MRSI Systems sold to Mycronic AB of Sweden. The purchase price amounted to USD 40.7 million (approximately SEK 358 million) on a cash and debt free basis and is financed with a combination of Mycronic’s own funds and bank financing. Under certain performance...
Scaling Will Fail With the Wrong Organization Structure
Facebook reorganized their management structure last week to address several issues that the current structure was failing to solve. Clearly the handing of user’s data was one of them. But they also rearranged the structure to separate new evolving technology...
Simon Sinek’s -10 Rules For Success – Cover Version of #6 to #10
This is Part Two of a post reviewing Simon Sinek’s 10 Rules For Success. Simon’s talk “How Great Leaders Inspire Action” has had over 37 million views. He has the ability to codify quite complex behaviors and therefore bring insight to leaders...
Simon Sinek’s -10 Rules For Success – Cover Version of #1 to #5
You may not have heard of Simon Sinek, ex-professor of strategic communications at Columbia University, who is better known to a wider global audience for his talks at TED conferences. His talk “How Great Leaders Inspire Action” has had over 37 million...
Why Companies Work on the Wrong Stuff
Why do so some companies win and others fail? How is it possible for a new management team to transform the performance of a business? What is the essential difference between winners and losers? In a previous post a few years ago I emphasized the importance of...
Staff Engagement – Some Questions To Ponder
I’ve always been fascinated with what motivates someone to jump into their day! There were plenty of Glaswegians born in 1959 but not all chose a path of education to become a Scottish CA, run to London as the ink was drying on their CA qualification to take up...Operational Excellence For Exits
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