Innovation. It’s a word that crops up everywhere these days and
plays its part in the formation of the
most toe curling of corporate slogans - BOC’s `Delivering Innovative Solutions`
plastered across the side of their trucks being one of my favourite examples of
pseudo-marketing nonsense.
There is so much guff talked about innovation. So often it is presumed to be the preserve of
the...
Monday, 23 June 2014
Tuesday, 17 June 2014
Sorting the Entrepreneurial Wheat from the Egomaniacal Chaff
Some of you may have read my recent blog about applying the
fine art of emotional intelligence in business.
If you haven’t, you can find it here - http://tinyurl.com/q8nju62
Anyway, as a reference point I thought it’d be worth contrasting
it as a desired approach to management and relationships directly with the
behaviour of two extreme entrepreneurial and management personality types...
Written Tuesday, June 17, 2014 by Unknown
No commentsTuesday, 10 June 2014
Entrepreneurial Leadership Means Managing a State of Continuous Turnaround
Being an entrepreneurial business leader is a big challenge.
It takes a combination of skill, personality and sheer endurance to do a tough
job day-in, day- out. It’s always been the case, but in the 21st
century there is unprecedented rate of change to be dealt with and that makes
the job a whole lot more challenging.
Markets are now continually being disrupted by combinations
of regulation, consolidation,...
Written Tuesday, June 10, 2014 by Unknown
No commentsThursday, 5 June 2014
Want To Be The Next Uber? What VCs Need to Know About You and Your Team
The media is currently awash with claims that if Uber's $17-billion valuation becomes reality, it will make Uber the most currently `valuable` tech startup, ahead of Airbnb, Dropbox, and Xiaomi and their mere $10bn valuations.
Of course, this ranking game that reflects a media obsessed with lists and number envy doesn’t necessarily make one company more important than another - or better assure...
Written Thursday, June 05, 2014 by Unknown
No commentsTuesday, 3 June 2014
Judgement Daze? The Secret of Good Decision Making
I’ve mentioned in this blog before that I think that
judgement is the most important yet often most underrated of business
skills. I suspect that’s because it’s
difficult to quantify and that fits uncomfortably in a data-obsessed `if it
can’t be measured it can’t be managed` world and the format of case study
models force fed to MBA students. Yet it is particularly important to develop
it in...
Written Tuesday, June 03, 2014 by Unknown
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