Leadership Cube Archives - Page 2 of 4

24 Feb

A Framework for Setting your Business up for Success in a Volatile World

In Structure & Processes, VUCA

A Framework for Setting your Business up for Success in a Volatile World - In a difficult environment, leaders need to resist the impulse to adopt a defensive pose. They must instead take actions that will position their organization for success. Uncertainty is like the weather. It’s always there, part...

17 Feb

Great Leaders & Organisations Advance a Just Cause

In Leadership, Vision & Purpose

Great Leaders & Organisations Advance a Just Cause

25 Nov

The precise number of people to put on a team to maximise productivity

In Leadership, Team

This is the precise number of people to put on a team to maximise productivity - Tech exec and entrepreneur Mona Sabet explains the exact size of a group that can build and maintain empathy and shared purpose to bring out maximum performance. In 2012, I founded Hipower, a nonprofit...

11 Nov

The capitalists putting purpose ahead of profit

In Leadership, Vision & Purpose

The capitalists putting purpose ahead of profit By Oliver Balch As protest and environmental alarm escalate, a new breed of business is prioritising values other than money and growth In a volatile world jolted by protest, revolt and environmental alarm, capitalism is showing signs of twitchiness.

26 Aug

Making Your Strategy More Agile? Consider These Risks

In Strategy

Making Your Strategy More Agile? Consider These Risks - It is frequently argued that strategy’s holy grail—the pursuit of sustained competitive advantage—is futile in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world. Instead, so the argument goes, organisations should focus on agile strategy, thereby realising a dynamic and continuous stream of short-term advantages. But is...

05 Aug

Do You Think HR is Effective?

In HR, Strategy

Do You Think HR is Effective? - Dave Ulrich stresses the importance of relationships over roles in his assessment of how HR deals with its own internal challenges. HR for HR means that HR professionals apply to their own function the knowledge and tools they apply to their organisations. This...

17 Jun

Building A Company Culture Is Not About Writing Values On A Wall

In Leadership, Vision & Purpose

Building A Company Culture Is Not About Writing Values On A Wall - Take a walk around the area known as London’s Silicon Roundabout, and you will easily see from the street into the windows of offices and co-working spaces. Through these windows, can often be seen the typical...

26 Nov

The Big Lies of Strategy

In Strategy

The Big Lies of Strategy by Roger L. Martin - You don’t need a 100-page strategic plan. Strategy is actually about making five specific choices. - THOSE WHO KNOW ME WELL know that I have a love/hate relationship with all things strategic. On the one hand, I hate ‘strategic planning’...

19 Nov

The Collapse of Strategy and Its Implications

In Strategy

The Collapse of Strategy and Its Implications - “Strategy” might be one of the most elemental parts of a business. And the most misunderstood. Perpetuating the problem is the proliferation of corporate strategy groups and “strategy” job titles that involve very little strategy in the economic sense of the term...

09 Jul

8 Shifts That Will Take Your Strategy Into High Gear

In Strategy

Developing a great strategy starts with changing the dynamics in your strategy room. Here’s how. Many strategy planning processes begin with a memo like the one below. Such missives lead managers to spend months gathering inputs, mining data, scanning the marketplace for opportunities and threats, and formulating responses. In the...