“Something to chew on over your breakfast”
The word execution in a leadership context sounds like an oxymoron. The reality is that, despite the growing investment in leadership development, its been found that 70% of organisations have been unsuccessful in executing leadership systematically across their business.
“Something to chew on over your Friday morning coffee”
Recently I sat down with a mentee in Sydney to have our periodic “learning conversation”. This is a reflective exercise that we both enjoy and gain value from. This young guy is what I would call a ‘Mover & Shaker’. He’s studying both law and economics. He is bright, ambitious, extremely curious and questions everything.
“Something to Digest over the Weekend”
During my recent visit to Europe I caught up with two of my former students, who are employed by two of the largest global Consultancy Firms.
It seems that both of these big ticket firms adopt a similar high-margin ‘Business Model’. They hire young graduates and throw them in the deep end, working on projects they have never been trained for and with little more than a simple brief and a ‘fake it till you make it approach’.