Management

Book Review: Good strategy, Bad Strategy – The difference and why it matters by Richard Rumelt

There’s so much happening in the world – mostly driven by the digital revolution – that it’s easy to get so wrapped up with new tools and channels that the fundamentals are left behind. Strategy is one of those areas that is often neglected. And even when, like me, you’ve Read More

2014-08-18T14:05:33+01:00November 22, 2012|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Property, Strategy|

Is your organisation too complex?

I participated in a fascinating webinar today by AMBA (Association of MBAs) where Professor Simon Collinson (Dean of Birmingham Business School) presented the key findings from the book he co-authored with Melvin Jay called “From complexity to simplicity: Unleash your organisation’s potential”. There may be some interesting lessons for larger Read More

2013-08-09T20:53:32+01:00October 24, 2012|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Statistics and trends, Strategy|

Diversity Debate – Women on Boards?

The other day there was a piece about the lack of women on UK Boards in the Evening Standard http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/boardroom-doors-are-still-closed-for-women-8084093.html The key points were that: Not one woman has joined the board of any of Britain’s biggest companies in the past year In the past two years, of 87 executive Read More

2013-08-08T20:50:37+01:00August 31, 2012|Kim's Blog, Statistics and trends|

McKinsey’s “Managing the strategy journey” says spend more time on strategy

An interesting paper from the masters of strategy arrived earlier this month. The essence of their previous argument was that “the only way to set strategy effectively during uncertain times was to bring together, much more frequently, the members of the top team, who were uniquely positioned to surface critical Read More

2024-04-16T21:04:31+01:00August 2, 2012|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Strategy|
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