Centre for Business Performance
Business Book Review: ‘Legacy: What the All Blacks can teach us about the business of life – 15 lessons in leadership’ by James Kerr
[su_youtube url="https://youtu.be/KKvzExoH2Gg"] Summarised by Keith Thompson [su_row][su_column size="2/3"] Introduction Business leaders and managers constantly seek how to create successful and high performing organisations. In his book, James Kerr draws upon the most successful team in ...
Turn The Ship Around, Mission Command, and Jumping to Conclusions (Part three from four)
One of executive’s and management’s favourite sports is jumping to conclusions, or jumping to solutions before a problem is really understood and the evidence gathered! It is one of the most difficult things, when facilitating ...
Are you motivated or inspired?
It’s hard to believe we're into the second quarter of the year. The dawning of April made me think about my New Year resolutions which, I’m afraid I had almost forgotten as January seems such ...
Judgement vs Process
Listening to the Today programme I was interested to hear a former employee of the Border Agency talking about the way in which immigration officers exercised judgement in dealing with people whose right to stay ...
Turn The Ship Around, Mission Command & Clarity (Part two from four)
In the book “Turn The Ship Around” the author, David Marquet, tells us how important clarity is to implementing Mission Command. It is particularly important in the Centralised Intent stages of the 8-stage process: And ...
‘Turn This Ship Around’ and acting your way to new thinking, or ‘fake it till you make it’! (Part one of four)
David Marquet tells us about the time he was rapidly running out of time and needed to raise morale quickly. He had two choices, “Change your own thinking and hope this leads to new behaviour, ...