There’s plenty of research on the cost of bad writing in business. The data suggests that the average white-collar worker spends around 136 minutes a week trying to make sense of poor writing. Is that the case at your workplace? Do you know what it costs your...
“If plan A doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters – 204 if you’re in Japan” -Claire Cook Claire’s an American author and public speaker. I reckon she’s got it right.Strategies are not carved in stone, like a headstone on a grave. They are iterative...
“Be strategic about productivity—do less exceptionally well, instead of doing more in an average way” — Laurie Buchanan, PHD ‘Do less, better’ is the mantra of managers in several organisations I consult to. (Un)funnily they are...
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all”. Peter Drucker is one of the best-known thinkers on management (here’s an interesting dissertation on HBR about the pros and cons of his work). Whether you...
“A real strategy involves a clear set of choices that define what the firm is going to do and what it’s not going to do. Many strategies fail to get implemented, despite the ample efforts of hard-working people, because they do not represent a set of clear...
“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results” Usually attributed to Sir Winston Churchill although it doesn’t appear in his canon. Whoever wrote it I agree. Getting the strategy right is vital. Articulating it...
