We have a lot of clients in the financial sector. So we are always on the lookout for new thinking about the financial sector. Brett King, the author of Bank 2.0 and Bank 3.0 is a guru in this field. When he speaks, you should listen. Breaking banks He wrote a book, “Breaking banks, the […]
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Doing is the new black. Kevin Kelly Came across Kevin Kelly with “DO! The pursuit of xceptional execution”. Then realised he was Irish and I had seen him speak at an SFA conference a few years ago. I remember that day vividly. Not only because of Kevin’s talk but because of another speaker that day, Gerry
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We were doing some work for a large corporation with the launch of their new learning and development programme. The client is a progressive company that believes that well developed, engaged and happy staff are essential for their success. The brief The job was to give staff a briefing on the future of work and
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Drucker is to management, what John Maynard Keynes is to economics or W. Edwards Deming to quality, Drucker As Financial Times reviewer Simon London put it best “The biggest challenge for any management writer is to find something to say that management guru Peter Drucker has not already said better.” Charles Handy agrees. “Think of any
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Get on with it. A friend of mine is an imagineer, philosopher and strategic consultant. Every now and then he does Marcus Aurelius sessions. I was at one of those and I can honestly say it changed my life. This books could change yours. Stoicism as an operating system Marcus Aurelius is part of the
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The most comprehensive exploration of the newest generation on the block appears in “Generation Einstein: smart, social and super fast”, by Jeroen Boschma and Inez Groen. What is Generation Einstein? They came before generation Z, before generation G, and they have some characteristics of which you should take note. They are shifting the Maslow pyramid.
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How do you plan for a world that is in constant flux? We are getting that question a lot. Should you plan at all? What timeframe do you plan for? And how do you make an organisation fluid enough to respond to constant change and volatility? BIG questions. No easy answers. Do you have a
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It was ‘The innovator’s dilemma’ that changed the pace of innovation forever. It was the first book that suggested that the consequence of true innovation is the destruction of your existing business model. “Demand” uses the now-famous example of the Kindle, where Jeff Bezos told a team to get out of the building and go
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The fundamental problem is that people think of execution as the tactical side of the business, something to be delegated by leaders while thy focus on the perceived “bigger” issues. This is wrong. Execution is not just tactics. It is a discipline and a system that has to be built into a company’s strategy, its
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The future of the mind? What is the relevance to business? It was the first question my girlfriend asked when I told her about this book. Have been scratching my head…… Future trends are important Here is what I have come up with. Future trends are important for business to understand. Business is not about
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