How to create strategies to build the You of the future. We are all familiar with a SWOT Analysis being used on our business. SWOT is an acronym for identifying your company’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. But did you know you can use it on yourself? And that you can use it to generate […]
VIEW POST“Bad companies are destroyed by the crisis. Good companies survive them. Great companies are improved by them” – Andy Grove, co-founder of Intel I know the commonly accepted thinking is that to be more successful you need to address and leverage your strengths, not your weaknesses. I have even written an article on this previously. […]
VIEW POSTHow failure can make you more successful… We all make mistakes, but do we learn from them? As children we are often taught not to make mistakes, and that it is important to be right. This is reinforced as we become adults and so we learn to equate mistakes with failure. And when we do […]
VIEW POSTHow to Manage Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity – Part 2 4 ways how leaders can deal with volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions In an earlier blog we looked at the challenges leaders face in dealing with Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity – or VUCA. As business leaders […]
VIEW POSTLeadership – the Ticking Talent Time Bomb by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions Forecasts on where the future leaders will come from, and where they will not! Are you worried about the lack of management and leadership talent in your business? You should be. There is an underlying shift in demographics that is […]
VIEW POSTDo You Have the 3 Factors for Organizational Resilience? How to assess and develop your organization’s resilience. *by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions Resilience – a word more often abused than used correctly. Resilience often is used to describe strength. Although strength is implied in resilience, it is actually not a trait (a distinguishing […]
VIEW POSTThe Motivation Trap by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions Why motivation alone is not enough, you need more… Imagine what would happen if your favorite football team took the field and the ONLY training they received in the last 8 months had been sitting in a room. Within the room, they’d be listening to legends […]
VIEW POSTFive Strategic Tips for a Profitable Future by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions A recently published book, Understanding Michael Porter: The essential guide to competition and strategy (Magretta, 2012), compiles and applies the work of management guru, Michael Porter. Full of useful insights, here are five pearls of wisdom that can, if applied, create […]
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