From the monthly archives: February 2008
Reading Stefan Stern’s article “The art of stretching employees” (Financial Times February 25th 2008) reminded me of some of the problems associated with the popular management by “stretch” philosophy. You know what I mean – asking employees to do the seemingly impossible for example achieve 60% growth after a year of 30% growth. There’s more [...]
There are a few tools that I use when working with clients that have the capability to deliver really highly geared results – these approaches really do change people’s attitudes about their customers, the power of their competitors and how their businesses really work. The frameworks for these tools can be found in most strategy [...]
Sunday’s business section of The Sunday Times fell open to the headline ‘Britain facing huge job losses’. Suddenly breakfast didn’t seem so palatable and indigestion loomed. Apparently, the latest research amongst employers reveals that 38% – very nearly 2 in 5 – plan redundancies over the next 3 months. The point that I’ve made in [...]
Have you noticed how there is a preoccupation with the risk of recession in the press and management discussions? It is as if an economic recession is the only impediment that may be in our path. The real risk to business however sits not outside but within the organization. And that risk is the failure [...]
And so after a vacation of seven years the ‘R’ word – recession – has re-entered the business vocabulary. As many observers are pointing out, there are real tangible reasons to fear the emergence of a recession. Fingers are being pointed at credit oversupply, energy prices, over reliance on the ‘decoupling theory’ (the idea that [...]
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