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Specialisation and the Power of Focus
Dart by Asif Akbar I had an excellent MDHub100 work group today. The work groups I think of as being most like AA for CEOs and MDs. A place where you can relax in the company of trusted peers and share...
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Game Playing: Is it all about Breaking the Rules?
Interestingly (but not surprisingly), there is a lot of recent material (psychology papers/ articles/ essays) which comes at the psychology of game playing from the gaming perspective. Steve Nicholl’s...
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Is Traditional Corporate Leadership Fundamentally Flawed?
Pyramid Restoration by Dyoptria I was struck today with the thought that the traditional corporate structure has a fundamental flaw. This flaw relates to its ability to harness the power of its...
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Strategy as Stress Survival
Nearly thirty years ago the Thomsons sold out of print newspapers, selling The Times and The Sunday Times to Murdoch. In 2007 they sold their college textbooks arm for a $2bn premium, making an offer...
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The Change Planning Toolbox: 10 Initial Steps
This is intended as a checklist to start any personal or corporate change project. Just take a blank sheet/ screen and start answering the following: Initial planning questions: 1. What are you trying...
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Elevator Pitch Methodology
A brilliant methodology for a good elevator pitch is described by Mike Southon in his FT Column. He first describes how in sales there is the concept of “golden nuggets”. He identifies that customers...
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Surely Continual Learning Should Apply to the Boss Too?
World in My Hand by Sachin Ghodke I was clearing through some old articles I cut and not yet reviewed. About a year ago the FT ran a survey of global business leaders to try and ascertain whether there...
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Leadership Traps: Thinking too Fast and Continuing Biases
I’ve been thinking about leadership traps I’ve read about recently (predominantly in Guy Claxton’s Hare Brain Tortoise Mind, but brought into relief by various mainstream Management Today, Fortune and...
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How to be an entrepreneur
During a talk I gave I was asked about the key lessons that I have learnt from running several businesses. I feel hardly qualified to answer, but I am very clear on a number of aspects: The cost of...
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