by Keith Coats | Mar 22, 2011 | Archive, Leadership, Organisational Development
A lot is written and said about innovation. Leaders are exhorted to innovate at all costs and there is no shortage of hired help when it comes to the theory, formation and implementation of innovative procedures. But there is an inherent problem. The context in which...
by Graeme Codrington | Mar 10, 2011 | Archive, Future Trends, Leadership, Organisational Development
Your best employees could very well have one eye on the door. Once the economic recovery begins in earnest they’ll have plenty of new opportunities to choose from – and businesses around the world will begin to experience an exodus of talented staff. More...
by Keith Coats | Feb 22, 2011 | Archive, Leadership, Organisational Development
“If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said a faster horse” is something attributed to Henry Ford. It was Ford’s ability to see the unseen that fuelled an entirely new habit of transportation in America. The innovative mass production of the Model...
by TomorrowToday Global | Feb 18, 2011 | Archive, Organisational Development
I was sitting in a coffee shop staring out over the ocean in a windy Cape Town reflecting on a debate I had just with a client about the significance of blue chip companies having to accommodate change in order to create environments where diversity in its broad sense...
by Keith Coats | Feb 1, 2011 | Archive, Leadership, Organisational Development
Any leader if asked whether or not he / she would like to have a resilient company or organization, is unlikely to give any answer other than an emphatic, “Of course I do”. And whilst resilience is something ‘hoped for’ amongst leaders when thinking of the...
by Keith Coats | Dec 21, 2010 | Organisational Development
I am currently reading a great ‘little’ book with big insights. It was given to me by my colleague Barrie with a, “you simply have to read this” dictum that I dare not ignore. Written by Gordon Mackensie the book’s title is somewhat intriguing: ‘Orbiting the Giant...
