There is a middle way between having a rigid multi-year plan and an ad hoc strategy decision making process. Its by identifying the Lighthouse.
Too often CEO's share their vision for their business without adequately explaining the Vision for the Industry first, and the role of the business second. This prevents dialogue about intentional strategic choices and limits the awareness of the essential strategic partnerships. CEOs need to explain the Vision "Outside-In"
One year on from my last commentary on the economic opportunities, I am saying the same thing. We all need to be wary of “green shoots” but we must seize opportunities, which means a very strategic, but agile, approach to business growth. With $17Tn of new money in the global system, continued inflationary pressure will remain, together with uncertainty of supply, shortage of quality employees a continued concern. There are some basic things every business leader must do to thrive in the new economy.
While we need to keep our sales process visible, the danger is we focus too much on OUR process. What have we forgotten? As much as we have a sales process, our prospective customers have their own journey.
With COVID this journey for many businesses is changing; it was already and COVID has just accelerated this. What that means is the human interaction is later in the journey and B2B marketing is even more critical
The End of broad based business support is in sight and 2021 looks like it will be a bumpy ride. A year of paradoxes. We will see strong economic growth; at the same time we will see significant business failures and restructuring.
Time to stop supporting all businesses and time to back the winners.
This articles describes what to really look for to identify winners.
How do you build high performance, navigate the coming workforce shifts, and create a culture that works and adapts?
Anton van der Walt leads us through an engaging group discussion focusing on the conversations we need using some simple structures, exploring the need to receive as well as give feedback.
This workshop will leave participants motivated and inspired to make positive change in their lives, and to help open their eyes and minds to possibilities and opportunities that may have been hiding until now.
Anthony helps participants recognise and remove the 3 key mental barriers to high performance and success – limiting beliefs, negative thoughts and fear – and provides the tools to keep the learning real, practical and relevant for the long term in both a personal and professional context.
You are warmly invited to the celebrate Thanksgiving with the Harvard Club of Australia - Thursday 28th November
Please join Harvard Club members and their guests to renew acquaintances, meet new Harvard Club alumni and their guests and other Harvard alumni based in Queensland to share in the true spirit of Thanksgiving.
Do you feel, like most business leaders, that you are constantly chasing your tail and never getting ahead? If so no doubt, you regularly second guess your decision making.
Even the best business leaders get easily distracted and often they feel like they are bouncing from task to task. Even in our high performing groups many members share that they feel frustrated that their staff and team don’t seem to listen.
This workshop helps you focus on your Presence - leading to you staying more focussed and in “Flow”
Implementation of AI in increasing productivity of your core business processes. This workshop is designed to give you confidence to launch initiatives harnessing AI which will give you order of magnitude improvement in performance, reducing time, minimising the human involvement in repetitive tasks and focusing on added value.
Jon Lindsay
Mobile: 0407 799 875
Email: jon@joined-up.com.au
Or you can click here and complete a contact form. Jon will be in touch with you within 48 hours.
Join us at the annual Varsity Bowls Challenge for an evening of light-hearted (!) rivalry between Alumni of Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford and INSEAD at the Windsor bowls Club
Bowling from 5-6pm. Food at 6.30pm
Come along for the social engagement and get caught up in the bitter rivalry! Team selection on the day and even if no bowling experience you’ll be most welcome!