There are ideal design principles that guide the structure and operation of any business, but very few leaders are able to maintain a continuing focus on them. Great businesses are only made by leaders who keep coming back to these…
Structure Before Strategy, Always
There exists a well-entrenched business principle that you first devise your strategy, and then create the structure to deliver it. It’s wrong. Structure Always Follows Strategy I was participating in an advisory board meeting last year for an Australian group that is…
They Will Never Catch Me
In today’s competitive market, you do not want to be a follower always playing catch up and looking to your competitors for signals of what to do next. But also, you do not want to be so far ahead of…
Opportunity – Is It Lost In The Noise?
It’s easy to say ‘innovate’, ‘disrupt’, ‘find your blue ocean’, but where do you actually start and where do you look for opportunities? I Can’t Hear Anything, It’s Too Noisy No one ever said being in business was going…
Five Marks Of Death, And Their Vaccines
Great businesses are grown by focusing on customer value and sticking to a purpose aligned to customer need. But your market will always be changing and therefore so must you. Your ability to lead change will reflect your likelihood of…
