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“Leaders in organisations with high-quality leadership teams typically displayed 4 of the 20 possible types of behavior; these 4, indeed, explained 89 percent of the variance between strong and weak organizations in terms of leadership effectiveness.” (Claudio Feser, Fernanda Mayol, and Ramesh Srinivasan.Decoding Leadership: What Really Matters). Effective Problem Solving. Gathering information, analyzing the facts, […]

“Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything for better or for worse”– Simon Sinek The Leadership Reformation suggests that toxic leaders create toxic workplaces with toxic cultures. Leaders are responsible for the teams, even if the cause is a toxic fellow employee. It’s their job to correct their members’ behaviour […]

Myth 1: Strategy is about the long term There are indeed industries where the competition dynamic remains unchanged for a long time. Leaders who stick to their strategy through thick and thin follow this process. However, if you think of strategy as a long-term commitment, you forget that strategy is about the fundamentals of how […]

Organisations have been spending a lot of time, money and effort to improve leadership capabilities and foster new leaders—Yet some still fail. Here are a few reasons why leadership development fails: Poor/No clarity on the “end” or outcome (Why this training)? – “We fear what we do not understand”. Organisations can adjust to this paradigm […]

It’s alarming that a survey shows 97% of senior leaders consider Strategic Thinking as most important to the success of their organisation. Ironically, 96% said they don’t have time for it. Intrigued? HBR suggests that there are two barriers to strategic thinking: first, the often-unconscious placement of incentives by companies, second, “busyness” being considered as […]

In the last 15 years, we have worked with many organisations that do not have documented strategic or operational plans that guide the work of the company. So, how did you do with our quick strategy check? : 4-5 points= Congratulations! You are definitely guided by your plans. 2-3 points= You have plans, but they’re […]