So much of the excellence in organisations depends on sole managers in smaller enterprises and middle managers in larger organisations. These positions are amphibious - half in the delivery of the organisations goods and services and half in managing others to provide these. A critical capacity for these managers is to effectively ensure their standards are replicated or bettered by those whom they manage...
Read MoreTo some a Strategic Business Plan is another document to sit on the shelf, valuable only for killing the odd cockroach that crawls across it from time to time. When planning is not done well this is the result. However planning done well links vision to daily activity and moves it from black and white to colour in an instance...
Read MoreEnlightened Organisations move with a natural rhythm like seasons in the year, each similar but each with its own unique features. More than seasons they are like a musical masterpiece with layers of rhythm...
Read MoreI can usually sense the state of an organisation's Planning and Performance Management systems when I first walk in. If the staff are purposeful, with direction, positive and clear, and relatively calm and assured in what they are doing, and this is not only one or two lone wolves, but most of the pack, I know they have effective systems without asking... In this Blog I discuss the ingredients of a successful Performance Management System...
Read MoreLeadership and management in our organisations should be based on the nature of human beings, recognizing our desire for direction and to strive to do good, to express and receive praise and reward, to achieve success in unity, striving towards common ends and improve the lives of those around us….
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