I believe I can fly!
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Keys To Unlocking Great Decision-Making
Decision-making is hard. An unclear or poorly defined process can trigger decision ‘churn’, where previous judgments are revisited; a ‘fog of accountability’, where no one is truly answerable; ‘death by PowerPoint’, where decision-making gets lost from too much information-sharing; and bureaucratic governance. Read the full article here.
Will Artificial Intelligence Make You A Better Leader?
Consider this real-life scene. Reflecting on the difficult moments of his week, the new CEO of a UK manufacturer felt angry. His attention kept going back to the tension in several executive team meetings. He had an urge to shake the team and push several of its members, who were riven by old conflicts, to…
Firms of the Future: Building Advisory Services
Building advisory and consultancy services can be an amazing journey for staff, partners, and clients. But it is important for SMPs to take some time out to reflect on the firm’s strategy. here is currently a general consensus that SMPs need to re-evaluate the services that they are providing, which may involve an eventual change…
Globalisation Has Created Wealth, but for whom?
Even as the world economy has boomed over the last 40 years, growth within countries has been less and less equally shared. This is a social issue, of course, but at its core, it’s an economic one. Nothing resonates in the public consciousness unless it chimes with people’s felt experience. So, it was quite telling…
Adapting To The New Globalisation
New trade policies must be based on a clear-eyed understanding of how globalisation is evolving, not on a backward-looking vision based on the last 30 years, write Laura Tyson and Susan Lund. Around the world, countries are rethinking the terms of engagement in global trade. This is not all bad; in fact, acknowledgment of globalisation’s…
The Real Villain Behind Our New Gilded Age
In the past two decades, growth rates in the united states have fallen to half of what they were in the middle of the 20th century. the share of income accruing to the top 1% has nearly doubled since the 1970s, while the share of income going to all workers has fallen by nearly 10%.…
Focus: The Global Era
People around the globe are more connected to each other than ever before. Information, communication, and money are being exchanged at lightning speed. Goods and services produced in one part of the world are increasingly available in all parts of the world. It’s incredible the way the global economy has recovered from the 2008 financial…
How To Mess Up Your Agile Transformation in 7 Easy (mis)steps
You have to give it to Silicon Valley: it sure knows how to disrupt industries. It has left its mark on every facet of our life − from how we socialise and interact to how we travel, how we earn, and how we pay. The scale of impact has led to traditional companies in the…
Focus: Leading Through Innovation
FNB’s innovation programme has resulted in more than 10 000 implemented innovations to date and remains central to the bank’s growth strategy and its ability to deliver on its brand promise of helping customers. We spoke to chief Imagineer Jolandé Duvenage to learn more about how innovation is changing the game in the financial services…