For most of human history people lived in small groups of no more than 150. These families or small villages could be sustained through a hierarchy led by strong individuals – we call them Rulers. The attributes of leaders which make them Rulers survive today and form the 2nd of…
24. Performance
Who doesn’t want to perform well? Who doesn’t want to succeed? Aren’t Performance or Success or Striving for better motherhood values? Their place as the 2nd most popular “Corporate Value” is interesting. Perhaps the need to focus on “Performance” betrays a frustration that not everyone in organizations are equally committed…
19. Be Careful what you wish for…
Inevitably our series on Strategy has come to what we aim to do. What in BalancedKaizen we call Standards. No journey undertaken by a mature organization starts today. A common vanity among newly appointed leaders is to think that they can reset the path of their organization to new and…
13. When Less is More…
A Fox and a Cat were comparing how many tricks and escapes they had from predators. The fox boasted that it had many, whilst the poor old cat only had just one, that is to climb the nearest tree. Hunters suddenly arrived with their dogs, and the cat immediately climbed…
7. You are what you Aim for.
There are few things more polarizing in an organization than target setting. I don’t mean that leaders are divided on the merits of objectives, though they often are. I mean that the whole subject of targets is what separates leaders from their teams. There’s a theme in leadership literature that…