Dr Dominic Irvine I help leaders perform under pressure because I’ve studied it academically, lived it physically, and applied it organisationally. Chasing outrageous goals represents a fundamental paradox. On the one hand, traditional management literature and psychological frameworks emphasize the necessity of “SMART” goals as the primary mechanism for maintaining motivation and ensuring organizational or […]
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Culture matters. The constituent elements of a performance culture correlate with tangible performance metrics like sales growth, return on investment, quality, and customer satisfaction. A performance culture is… A workplace environment that prioritizes and enables high achievement of goals. It is unashamedly about results, going beyond feel-good values to ensure the organization performs at its
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As an ultra-distance, world record holding cyclist, I am sometimes asked to talk about my experiences. Not from the perspective of a sports person ‘telling business people’ how to achieve high performance, but as a business person who took on a sporting challenge and showed athletes how to do it. It is a unique perspective.
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The problem The paradox of modern corporate strategy lies in the persistent failure of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) to deliver on their promised value, despite increasingly sophisticated financial modeling and legal due diligence. Research indicates that upwards of 75% of mergers fail to meet their initial financial expectations, a phenomenon frequently attributed not to strategic
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Senior leadership teams rarely lack intelligence, experience, or commitment. What they often lack is honesty at the exact moments it matters most. Organizations that surface uncomfortable truths earlier outperform those that don’t (Edmondson, 2018). The challenge is not persuading leaders to value honesty, but designing meetings that make honesty neurologically, psychologically, and socially possible. Step
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