Three Roadblocks to Strategic Planning
As time passes, a plan will need to be continually updated; Therefore, dubbing strategic planning a “big lie”. According to Kenny, another complaint is that “strategic” planning isn’t actually “strategy” at all. Corporate as usual takes over, and the innovative thinking that underpins ambitious business actions is pushed aside. The strategic planning process has a […]
Culture should support its mission and strategy
Adapted from: HBR | Does Your Company’s Culture Reinforce Its Strategy and Purpose? | Hubert Joly Culture should support its mission and strategy. Purpose has recently become a critical component of running a business, serving as the guidance and impetus for all firm actions. However, there is often a significant disconnect between a firm’s purpose […]
Preventing hybrid work from breaking company culture
It’s difficult to sustain a unified culture when most of your employees regularly work from home. Adapted from Strategy & Business / Earl Simpkins and Varun Bhatnagar / The ‘hybrid work’ approach to work has been proven to greatly affect company culture. A Harvard Business Review (HBR) and PwC’s Global Culture Survey found that employees […]
Healthy Office Politics
HBR (Harvard Business Review) analysis demonstrated that disengagement with workplace politics is a result of toxic culture. Negative politics can have a nasty downside and can derail relationships and performance. And once it becomes part of the organisation’s culture it can be exceedingly difficult to remedy. Among the negative experiences were exclusions from informal relationships, […]
Workforce Ecosystem Management
Adapted from: MIT Sloan Management Review | Orchestrating Workforce Ecosystem | ELIZABETH J. ALTMAN, DAVID KIRON, ROBIN JONES, AND JEFF SCHWARTZ | May 17, 2022 What are workforce ecosystems? MIT Sloan Management Review and Deloitte define Workforce Ecosystems as a structure that aligns business and workforce strategies. Successful leaders are understanding the complexity of these […]
BE PREPARED FOR THE NEXT WAVE OF COVID!
Adapted from: HBR| Prepare Your Company for the Next Covid Wave| Patricia Toro, Jeff Levin-Scherz, and John M. Bremen “The pandemic is not done, and corporations must be prepared for whatever the pandemic throws at them next, with the Omicron BA.2 strain and its progeny growing prevalent and protection to infections and immunisations fading.” Patricia […]
Change Exhaustion, Do Something!
Adapted from: HBR| Managers, What Are You Doing About Change Exhaustion? | By Mollie West Duffy and Liz Fosslien “Change fatigue. Resilience fatigue. Agility fatigue. WFH fatigue. Video-conference fatigue. Online schooling fatigue. Restriction fatigue. Conflict fatigue. Fatigue fatigue. 2020 – the international year of fatigue.” (digital health consultant Simon Terry) When the pandemic hit, everything […]
5 Practices for an Inclusive Hybrid Workplace
Adapted from: HBR| 5 Practices to Make Your Hybrid Workplace Inclusive| Grace Lordan, Teresa Almeida, and Lindsay Kohler | A hybrid workplace paradigm combines in-office and remote work to provide employees with flexibility and support. Employees in a hybrid workplace often have more autonomy and a better work-life balance and are therefore more engaged—building a […]
Toxic Rock Stars
“Research has shown that toxic cultures cost U.S. companies almost $50 billion per year, and toxic culture was the single biggest predictor of attrition during the first six months of the Great Resignation.” Purushothaman and Stromberg. Yes, toxic rock stars can deliver today but one cannot ignore the long-term impact of these culture bullies on […]
Tackling Cultural Transformation
“The bottom line for leaders is, if they do not become conscious of the cultures in which they are embedded, those cultures will manage them.”—Edgar Schein Here’s the truth. The majority of businesses do not have a firm grasp on their culture. Others don’t even consider it’s worth assessing the culture. According to Skip Richard, […]
Human Performance Improvement Can Transform Businesses
Put a good performer in a bad system, and the system will win every time. -Geary Rummler A small business should consider the tremendous financial impact that employees will have on the organizational bottom line. Employees are one of the leading expenses for a small business and should therefore be set up to succeed based […]
Knowing the Purpose of your Purpose
“For any individual company, determining the purpose of its purpose is fundamentally a business decision and must be anchored in strategy. Corporate purpose requires clarity about the trade-offs being made and should result in something that is internally coherent. “ Jonathan Knowles, B. Tom Hunsaker, Hannah Grove, and Alison James| HBR Defining your corporate purpose […]