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10 Minutes with Roger Martin: A Plan Is Not a Strategy
In this YouTube video on strategic planning, Roger Martin articulates the distinction between strategy and planning, emphasizing the importance of a coherent, outcome-focused strategy over mere planning. He argues that while planning has been a long-standing practice involving the enumeration…
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Managing Complexity!
The following extracts are from this great 2010 article from McKinsey on Complexity! Complexity isn’t always harmful. There is often value in having multiple business units and operating on a global scale. Complexity can be part of a successful business…
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Excessive Complexity & Bureaucracy Score Highest in Bain “Management Tools & Trends” Survey 2023
Despite global challenges such as economic downturns, the Great Resignation, inflation, military conflicts, and Covid-19, a survey of over 1,000 executives and managers revealed surprising optimism. This positivity is the highest in the 30-year history of the survey, with executives…
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Your Intellectual Capital Walks Out the Door Every Night, What Happens If It Doesn’t Return?
In the modern VUCA world, staff churn represents a significant challenge for business leaders. Characterised by a high rate of employee turnover, it undermines workforce stability and threatens the effectiveness of business strategies. Distinct from normal employee turnover, staff churn…
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Growing Fast?: So is Your Operational Debt.
In the ascent of high-growth businesses, the allure of swift expansion often overshadows critical gaps in operational excellence. The buzz of scaling a successful business can lead to the accumulation of operational debt – a risk magnified when growth outstrips…
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Solving Operational and Organisational Debt
In the fast-paced and ever-evolving business world, the concept of organisational debt is increasingly gaining attention. This term encompasses the build-up of inefficiencies, unresolved issues, and outdated practices that cumulatively slow down an organisation’s growth and agility. Analogous to financial…
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60 Seconds with Jonathan Raymond: Addressing Organizational Debt (nothing to do with money)
Jonathan Raymond, in his presentation on how to tackle organizational debt, emphasizes the importance of addressing both technical and organizational issues within a company. As the CEO of Refound and author of “Good Authority,” Raymond brings a wealth of experience…
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60 Seconds with Aaron Dignan: Are You Building an Organisation with Traffic Lights or Roundabouts?
In the presentation “Brave New Work” by Aaron Dignan at Talks at Google, Dignan addresses the challenges and inefficiencies in traditional organizational structures and work practices, emphasizing the need for a more adaptive and empowering approach to management and work…
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60 Seconds with Ann Miura-Ko from VC FLOODGATE: Minimising Technical & Organisational Debt.
“….these companies will minimize technical and organizational risk, or organizational debt. These are the things that happen in a company as you’re acting quickly, where you are accruing some cost. And great companies will minimize that debt.”
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The Management Paradigm Driving The World’s Most Valuable Firms
Forbes: Steve Denning Jan 25, 2024, “The most valuable and the fastest growing firms today (see Annex 1 and 2) are being managed very differently from average performing firms. The shift is being driven by practitioners. average firms are still…