by Keith Coats | Jan 27, 2016 | Archive, Change, Leadership
Strategy has often been confused with efficiency. If your ‘strategy’ is to be ‘efficient’ you have the wrong strategy. Efficiency is today nothing more than an organisational hygiene factor; when it comes to securing a competitive advantage, efficiency is necessary...
by Keith Coats | Jan 21, 2016 | Archive, Change, Future Trends, Leadership, Organisational Development
Every single institution and profession is under attack from the disruptive forces that are reshaping the world in a manner that is as relentless as it is unstoppable. The change frontiers are both ‘out there’– be that new frontiers in technology, massive...
by Keith Coats | Jan 21, 2016 | Archive, Change, Future Trends, Organisational Development
From the 1955 Fortune 500 list, only 71 companies still have their doors open for business. Given the status and entrenched success that goes with being listed in the Fortune 500, that is an alarming attrition rate. Big companies fail. Successful big companies fail....
by Keith Coats | Jan 12, 2016 | Archive, Leadership
“This is what we storytellers do, we restore order with imagination. We instil hope again and again and again” is something Walt Disney said to P.L. Travers in convincing her to sign over the rights to her Mary Poppins in order for him to translate her magical book to...
by Keith Coats | Jan 4, 2016 | Archive, Leadership
So you’re now a ‘Boss’ to someone. Congratulations! It promises to be an interesting and no doubt challenging journey and there are a few things that you should be aware of as you assume this new responsibility. Before you start, stop…and think. Stop and think about...
