“Paul Santagata, Head of Industry at Google knows that the highest-performing teams have one thing in common: psychological safety, the belief that you won’t be punished when you make a mistake. “ (Laura Delizonna)   Increase psychological safety among your team by replicating the steps that Santagata took: Taking conflict as a collaborator. We hate…

Adapted from: Your Performance Review Went Really Wrong | HBR | Shyamli Rathore   Many of us let our jobs define our self-worth. Any negative messages we receive about our performance hugely impact our self-esteem.  This is not an uncommon feeling. “In a performance review, while you can’t control what your boss will say to…

Adapted from: Strategy& | Mastering the connection between strategy and culture| David Lancefield “The goal should be to master the connectivity between strategy and culture. They both should be anchored by capabilities—the “key activities in which you must invest disproportionately and perform distinctively to underpin your theory of competitive advantage,” according to author and CEO advisor…

Adapted from: Strategy & Business | Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi “In a survey of 500 senior Executives around the world, about 80 percent said that their overall strategy was not well understood, even within their own company.” This problem arose from the way these companies are managed. There are significant gaps between strategy and execution. This…

A GUIDE TO OPEN STRATEGY Authors, Christian Stadler, Julia Hautz, Kurt Matzler, and Stephan Friedrich von den Eichen | Adapted from HBR “Strategy is developed in three distinct phases, each of them requiring a different solution to get the balance between openness and secrecy. Whether a company wants to open up in order to determine…

Adapted from: HBR | Demystifying Strategy: The What, Who, How, and Why | Michael D. Watkins “A business strategy is a set of guiding principles that, when communicated and adopted in the organisation, generates a desired pattern of decision making.” Michael D Watkins, What is a business strategy and what is not?  When it comes…