December 3, 2009 Keith Coats
How do you speak in a new way about strategy when an old language dominates the topic? This is a major obstacle standing in the way of thinking about strategy in a new way for a new world. Jamie Dimon, CEO of J.P. Morgan Chase was quoted in Fortune (January 26, 2009) as saying, “I [...]
April 27, 2005 Barrie Bramley
I spent 8 hours driving yesterday, to have a 90 minute meeting. Well an interview actually. I met with Thomas Schmuck. He manages a building supply store that is part of the Build It franchise (Click here for their web site). The store can be found in Vryheid. Somewhere in Kwa Zulu Natal. Actually a [...]
April 19, 2005 Graeme Codrington
This is the original submission as published as the Keynote feature in the Journal for Convergence (ISSN 1606-6162), Vol 5 No 4,www.axius.co.za “We can’t seem to keep our bright young things”. This is the common complaint of businesses around the world these days. Talented employees, especially young people, are not staying, and an older generation [...]
November 30, 2004 Graeme Codrington
One of the major reasons that interventions, training and change processes don’t work as effectively as we would like them to, is that we fail to take the time to create the necessary framework of understanding at the start of these processes. Simply put, we do not understand the nature of change itself. Too often [...]
November 30, 2004 Keith Coats
Leadership is about who you are. It is about character. It is about looking inwards in order to lead outwards. The best leaders are those know themselves, know their strengths and play to those strengths. They understand something of the connected, relational and paradoxical nature of the world in which they live and lead. They [...]
I was asked last week to lift my game a little when it came to my recent posts on this blog. I was deserving of the request. But at the risk of dropping my game all over again, I’ve just go to share this with the world…
For a more useful take on The Hoff, check out the MarketingWeb piece on how an ad agency (Net#work BBDO) have used the Hoff rage to inspire a great series of radio ads: http://www.marketingweb.co.za/advertising/593444.htm