Instinctive personality beats management by list
Lists, lists, lists. Everywhere I look, I see the remnants of good business advice boiled down into lists of do’s and don’ts. Whether it’s becoming a good leader, motivating employees, achieving a vision, selling more or writing a blog, someone will have distilled the essence of a good conversation into a list.
The argument is that [...]
Organisational proposition – Nudge, nudge, think, think
“Are you involved in any charitable activity?” asked the interviewer, …….and there it was – the final question in an otherwise benign ‘magazine-meets-entrepreneur-for-‘in-depth’-interview’ piece published in one of the UK’s most popular broadsheets. Of course, the answer was a gushing ‘Yes!’, followed by a few well-chosen words about a pet project, fundraising for autistic children.
Great [...]
Aligning business personality with buyer behaviour
I wrote recently of a barrage of culture-based articles, each with their own perspective on the irrational nature of decision-making. Thanks to sub-prime mortgages and the global financial crisis, the myth of the rational market has been thoroughly debunked. Traditional economists hang their heads, whilst proponents of behavioural economics are standing up to be counted. [...]
Value challenge for Facilities Management
I thought I would reproduce here an extract from a response I made to a question on ‘professionalisation’ from the Facilities Management sector. For those not in the know, Facilities Management(or FM) is a catch-all description for the various technical and management disciplines which we all rely upon to keep our commercial properties up & [...]
Embracing market imperfections
Everyone has a personal story to tell about achieving success, facing failure, surviving the downturn, avoiding redundancy, etc, etc, during what has, for most businesses, been an uncomfortable 18 month period of recession. Beyond the personal, one challenge which business leaders have to face up to is to understand how the effect of the recessionary [...]
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