Will the real champions please stand up
Right Said Fred’s catchy song, Stand-up for the Champions has been used to powerful effect by MNet to capture Joe Publics attention. The champions are portrayed as those sportsmen and women whose heroics leave us enthralled, entertained and at times dismayed....
10 Skills for future success
The Economist magazine ended a survey of e-business with a review of the skills necessary to successfully manage an e-world business. Now before you discount what is to follow because you might argue that you are not involved in an e-business, have a look at the list....
Finding the 10th planet
Quaoar! What a discovery. Isn't it amazing that in 2002 we can find another planet? If you're anything like some of the people I interviewed this week, then you're probably aware that something was discovered, and you may even know it was given that name...
Relationships – The economic return of the future
Of course in today's cynical, hard-pressed business environment, swallowing the prediction that relationships will be the economic return of tomorrow is a little like asking you to believe that bullets will one day bounce off vests made from the mixture of a spider's...
Dumb moments in business
A dozen Burger King marketing execs suffer first and second-degree burns while walking over hot coals as part of a teambuilding retreat in October. One of the injured, a VP for product marketing aptly named Dana Frydman, tried to put a positive spin on it by remaking...
Avoid being hit in the temple – Leadership challenges into the future
Written by Barrie Bramley & Keith Coats. As a leader within any industry, one of their key result indicators surely has to be a concern and interest in the future. Leaders are often the ones who carry the responsibility of ‘looking out of the window’, removing...
Why companies fail
By: Ram Charan & Jerry Unseem Fortune Magazine (Europe Edition) #11 Charan & Unseem explore the critical question of corporate failure and come up with, ‚Ten Big Mistakes‛ that they maintain are the ‚standard stuff of corporate folly‛. The article is based on...
Concept Cafe
Concept Cafe is a creative way to accomplish a variety of goals in the workplace, from developing and mentoring staff to brainstorming ideas and concepts. Essentially it can involve anything between 3-12 people, (though numbers can vary) meeting on a regular basis...
The future of leadership
In our last issue we said that we'd begin to review how leading thinkers today are re-looking at the concept of leadership. As you consider your own models of leadership and some of the thinking that has influenced you thus far, here are some thoughts for your...
A New Model of Leadership
The 21st century model is all about, collective thought, invitation and relationship. It's about trust, respect and optimism. It has everything to do with connections, whether they are visible or not, and a fundamental belief that all people, no matter who, can shape...
Jack Welch on being CEO
From Jack Welch’s new book, entitled ‘Jack’, we’ve taken exerts from his chapter ‘What this CEO thing is all about.' INTEGRITY By maintaining integrity. Establishing it and never wavering from it supported everything I did through good and bad times. People...
Keeping Top Employees
One might be considered blind if you didn't recognise the importance of ensuring that 'turn over' of staff remains at a minimum. The cost of losing a staff person is high, when one considers; recruiting expenses, training costs and reduced productivity. Solutions to...
China may not be the real ‘sleeping giant’
The current events in Iraq have been looked at through almost every conceivable lens; economic, political, human tragedy, humour, spiritual, to name a few. Perhaps a lens that's been overlooked is that of a generational perspective. In the April 7, 2004 edition of...