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An extract from one of Harvard Business Review’s all-time popular articles written by Peter Drucker in 1999. The ideas in this are still extremely relevant today
In terms of personal development and managing oneself towards excellence, Peter F. Drucker suggests you ask yourself the following five questions:
1. What are my strengths?
2. How do I work?
3. What are my values?
4. Where do I belong?
5. What can I contribute?
These are not simple questions and require an honest self-analysis…
Based on the brilliant book “The Three Laws of Performance” by Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan
First of all, this short article is just an introduction to the basic ideas described in great detail in the “Three Laws of Performance” This is one of those must-read books for all executives and managers. Nonetheless, it is hoped this article can create interest for you to go read the book and discover how this set of ideas is changing world-class organizations and top managers in many countries…
Whether you are about to write a new article, thinking about how to re-organize an existing process in the workplace or marketing a new service, what is often needed is a new lens, a new way of doing things. But how does one go about looking at things differently? How does one “acquire” creativity on demand, when needed? Here are 3 key strategies…
An extract from a web article that explains the ideas presented in the book “In The Innovator’s DNA” by authors Jeff Dyer, Hal Gergersen, and Clayton M. Christensen
This article builds on the idea of innovation to outline the five discovery skills that distinguish people such as Steve Jobs of Apple, Jeff Bezos of Amazon and other innovators from the run-of-the-mill corporate managers. Academic and medical research shows that innovative tendencies are not genetic. Rather, they can be developed.The authors identify five discovery skills that distinguish successful innovators: associating, questioning, observing, networking, and experimenting…
Should you spend precious management time on a business plan or not? This has been the subject of big debates. Good planning can strengthen an organization’s productivity, efficiency and profitability and yet few organizations make the time or effort to do this. Why? Well, there are some fundamental problems organizations face when they start out to make a serious business plan… .
For all organizations that have a web presence and rely on their websites and social media assets to help with the growth of their business, it is common knowledge that the web is very crowded and there is a huge amount of competition out there. It is becoming extremely important to find new ways to increase the number of online visitors and enquiries. One new way of thinking that is rapidly becoming the new standard for marketing on the web is called Inbound Marketing.
Changing oneself – personal transformation – is akin to the challenge of running a marathon, considered by many to be the ultimate test of human endurance and commitment. What marathon runners commit to before they succeed and get past the 26 miles barrier is not very dissimilar to what ordinary people must do in order to change dramatically…
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