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...
by Keith Coats | Dec 14, 2015 | Archive, Leadership
Were I to colour the picture of my year by numbers it would look something like this: 131 flights (45 international and 86 domestic). That equates to 24 days (a ‘day’ being 24 hours) of my year was spent in a plane and a further 8 days sitting in airports somewhere....
by Keith Coats | Dec 1, 2015 | Archive, Leadership
“The business was still there when I got back” was the ah-ha revelation of John, a senior retail operations leader who dared go on holiday for two weeks without his cell phone. “In fact” he added, “my staff have grown as a result of taking decisions without me and...
