Business is not like sport. The 100m race is over in just a few seconds and even a marathon only lasts a few hours, whereas business has to succeed year in year out. Because most athletes have never tried to run a business the links they make in their “motivational presentations” to business are tenuous […]
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Ironmen History is littered with examples of fortunes turning right at the last moment. In the 1999 UEFA Champions League Final between Bayern Munich and Manchester United, Bayern’s ribbons had already been attached to the trophy when Manchester scored two goals in the very last minutes of the game. In the Ryder Cup and the
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This first appeared in Ingenious Britain on the 9th August 2013. Falling on deaf ears You’re very unlikely to listen to us. If Peter Drucker – one of the most influential management thinkers of the last 50 years failed to have an impact, then our chances are slight. Drucker was interviewed shortly before his death by the
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The first appeared in The Huffington Post, 25th October 2013. Employee surveys are a distraction; they cost a lot of money, produce data of questionable value and waste time and resources that could be better spent on doing business. The problem is they have now become an end in themselves. Employee surveys have become the
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