Centre for Business Performance
Beast from the East – GDP damage
I thought I’d get my two-penneth in before the BBC News’ Kamal Ahmed pops up telling us how much damage the current arctic weather has caused to the economy! A study carried out in 2015 ...
Mission Command and “Turn the Ship Around” by Louis David Marquet
Turn the Ship Around’s main premise is that many organisations’ management techniques have created Leader-Follower environments, even in the US Navy it seems, and David Marquet sought to bust this approach and develop a Leader-Leader ...
A new perspective on strategy
Sharing knowledge Four times a year Cranfield’s Centre for Business Performance (CBP) invites members of its Round Table https://www.cranfield.ac.uk/som/research-clubs/the-business-performance-roundtable to meet for a discussion under Chatham House Rules. It’s an opportunity for managers and leaders ...
Micromanagement and the seductive lure of high-tech! Or Humans vs Automatons!
On our travels we often support, along-side other commercial suppliers, learning institutions working to educate and train various professions. At one of these sessions before Xmas, a colleague and Visiting Fellow at Cranfield, Glenn Chambers, ...
Book Review: “The Art of Action: How Leaders Close the Gaps between Plans, Actions and Results”
Basically, this book explains what “Mission Command” (subject of our on-going blogs) really is so that you can actually understand it, and start applying it on a practical basis. It also lines up beautifully with ...
Mission Command – the Antidote to Micro-managing!
A couple of weeks ago, we looked at whether organisations are actually applying “Command & Control” in the way they manage their processes and staff, or whether in fact they are just employing poor management ...