How do you bring the all-important ‘Next’ into the ‘Now”?
With all my talk of change as your most formidable competitor, it’s easy to see disruptive forces and the ever-increasing pace of change as the enemy that your business must defeat. But the real enemy of business evolution is not change, but…
Strategic planning is easy, it’s strategic execution that’s hard!
Let’s face it, strategic planning takes effort. It requires an investment of time, energy and reasonable capital, depending of the depth of market and competitor analysis included in your strategic planning efforts. However, once the retreats…
Does the nature of change in today’s environment have your business on the edge of a ‘tipping point’?
As just about every current business book will tell you, the pace of change in today’s business environment is greater than it has ever been. However, this ever-increasing rate of change isn’t unique to the early 21st century. It’s been…
Change is your most formidable competition
In my last Projectify Point, I made the passing comment that, today, your greatest competitor is no longer the businesses that do the same things that you do – it’s ‘change’. In this episode, I want to dig into that idea a bit and…
Confusing strategic leadership with operations management
If you want strategy-making to help you to be more adaptive and evolve in today's highly dynamic and uncertain business world...to better connect your people to a shared sense of purpose...then you need to understand what 'strategy' actually…
Want to thrive in the business environment of the future? Shift your strategic mindset from growth to evolution
The belief that a business is ‘either growing or dying’[1] has been entrenched in our strategic mindset since the mid-twentieth century. However, in today’s ever-more-dynamic business environment, organisations that are focused on adapting…
Now is the time to PROJECTIFY
After nine months of blood, sweat and tears, my book project PROJECTIFY – How to use projects to engage your people in strategy that evolves your business is finally released into the world.
This is no big Bestseller Launch…no Grand Opening…
The Radical Humanisation of the Workplace
I had the pleasure of spending Friday at my colleague Mykel Dixon’s Business Romantic 2017 event in Melbourne. This event was conceived as a contrast to the archetypical business conference with its jam-packed agenda of speakers, carefully…
The 3 myths you must overcome to unlock the greatness in your organisation
I believe that exceptional business performance – be it customer service, product development or growth and profitability – comes from operational excellence. It comes from a team that is constantly striving to be great at the job of delivering…
Become extraordinary by making your history a bridge to the future
Most people base their view of what's possible in the future on what has happened previously – their history, including all things leading up to the moment they contemplate beyond ‘now’.
While it's normal to base our worldview on past…