People are gullible, or as my late father used to say ‘there is a sucker born everyday!’ When companies make statements like ‘People are our biggest assets’, the general consensus is they must be great companies. But I ask you, where is the relationship in that statement? Imagine saying that your partner, wife or husband […]
Oscar Wilde seems to have been right when he said, “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all”. For most people, we would estimate over 80%, the difference between a rut and a grave is only a matter of depth. Leaders are people who live, who “experience” life, […]
Managers are on a treadmill – a daily grind towards execution excellence, towards congruence – with the rising expectations of all Stakeholders. Driven by competition, internal and external, we get up earlier and work later; desperately seek skills and competencies; design systems and structures; invest in technology; cast our nets into risky foreign markets; build hierarchies […]
