In all our firms we rely on staying innovative to beat
our competitors and capture market share. But it's often assumed that it’s the application
of science and technology per se that provides the `secret sauce` for
differentiation and is the key
driver of new product, process or service development success. This appears now not to be
the case.
Recently, a research study conducted by the
University...
Friday, 9 October 2015
Wednesday, 15 July 2015
Want to Sell Your PR Firm? Avoid Developing a Case of PVVS.
It’s pretty well accepted that the skills and personality
required to be effective in leading a start-up operation are unlikely to be the
right tools the take the same company to maturity and/or eventual sale. In the PR industry the failure of individuals
to realise this maxim is inextricably linked to cases of Proprietorial Vanity Valuation
Syndrome (PVVS)
It’s an industry where...
Written Wednesday, July 15, 2015 by Unknown
1 commentFriday, 8 May 2015
How to Win Friends and Influence People (in 2015)
I came across a post on
LinkedIn the other day where someone suggested gushily that the lessons in the seminal
management/self- improvement work by Dale Carnegie ` How to Win Friends and Influence
People` are as true today as they were when they were written in 1936. Ever the contrarian, I thought I’d have a look through the
shiny aphorisms highlighted and see if, in my experience,...
Written Friday, May 08, 2015 by Unknown
No commentsThursday, 30 April 2015
Estate Agency - Is the Digital Devil Finally in the Details?
A few weeks ago whilst I was using this blog to muse on the
reasons for the demise of Tesco and the lessons to be learnt, I argued, that,
as business cycles quicken inexorably, many of the disruptors of the early days
of the internet are already ripe themselves for disruption.
But, I opined, there still are many from the `old` economy who
remain supposedly `regulated` - protected by law - and are...
Written Thursday, April 30, 2015 by Unknown
No commentsTuesday, 14 April 2015
Hiring Today? Don’t CYA.
I’ve recently observed a series of hiring processes in firms
from mature to entrepreneurial. What
these disparate firms had in common is that, despite claiming they had
significant gaps in their capabilities and needed to hire fast, whatever the
level of person sought the speed of the hiring process was glacial.
This sloth was routinely accompanied seemingly by the appearance of
anyone...
Written Tuesday, April 14, 2015 by Unknown
No commentsThursday, 2 April 2015
Tough Love, Freely Given - A Mentoring Manifesto
As the actor Kevin Spacey is oft quoted in a LinkedIn meme,
`If you are lucky enough to do well, it’s your responsibility to send the
elevator back down. `
I like to think I keep pressing the button. I like mentoring people.
I make no bones about it. I get a
kick out of helping raw talent quickly ascend to the highest positions. It’s
become part of my DNA.
But, I’ve learned recently...
Written Thursday, April 02, 2015 by Unknown
No commentsTuesday, 17 March 2015
Tescopalypse Now - Every Little Shouldn’t Hurt
The once all-conquering retailer Tesco has recently lurched
from crisis to disaster*. Stories of stores closing, share price diving,
accounting scandals, criminal investigations, junk-rated credit and shrinking
turnover and market share have been seen almost daily in the media.
As if this wasn’t enough it’s been accompanied by the
unedifying sight of a long-time CEO, having timed his...
Written Tuesday, March 17, 2015 by Unknown
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