by Jonathan Gifford | Mar 20, 2014 | Leadership Ideas
Teams become emotionally attached to major projects in which they have invested their creative energies. It is difficult for organisations to write off large investments in time and money. Leaders need to abandon failed projects, whatever their merits. IBM...
by Jonathan Gifford | Feb 22, 2014 | Leadership Ideas
Leaders should be concerned with strategy, not operational execution. If the organisation is set up so that colleagues understand what they need to do, and are driven by their customers, colleagues can themselves agree how best to achieve that aim, profitably,...
by Jonathan Gifford | Feb 21, 2014 | Leadership Ideas
Infectious ideas – or ‘memes’—are powerful communication tools that pack a great deal of conceptual and emotional content into a simple phrase, sound or symbol. Leadership ideas that can be turned into memes spread successfully through the organisation,...
by Jonathan Gifford | Nov 21, 2013 | Leadership Ideas
Management seeks to regularise the irregular; to iron-out discrepancies and to correct deviations in the search for the perfectly-managed process. But this search for efficiency and predictability can never (by definition) generate happy accidents or surprises....
by Jonathan Gifford | Nov 15, 2013 | Leadership Ideas
Your organisation probably has a lot more data to hand than it realises – and almost certainly a lot more data than it actually uses. That data can just sit there collecting dust (or whatever the electronic equivalent is of dust on digital data) – or you can mine it...
by Jonathan Gifford | Oct 30, 2013 | Leadership Ideas
Giving people orders – commanding people to do things – works (a bit) in some situations. We’ve got used to it. We (the commanded) roll our eyes, sigh and get down it even if, as is so often the case, the person doing the ordering has clearly missed the point....
