Capello and the Maverick Potential business personality
To regular readers, my apologies. Illness has meant that posts have been few and far between in recent weeks. During my down-time, the soccer World Cup has provided a thought-provoking source of entertainment. The spectacular rise and fall of the English team made endless front and back-page headlines in the UK, unfortunately for all the [...]
Focusing on personality to ‘know thyself’
I am struck by the number of executive-level articles being published at the moment which reference culture and organisational awareness. Harvard Business Review’s ‘In a Turnaround, Put Culture First’ and ‘The CEO Conundrum’ at chiefexecutive.net are just two examples published today. What is the message? Perhaps it is this: Hunkering down during a recession is [...]
Orienting business personality towards the market
The essence of the message which the Fourth Gimbal blog focuses upon is the inter-weaving of organisational personality into the traditional ways in which a business communicates with the marketplace. Thus, the result is not an indeterminate and seemingly endless discussion on culture and values, but a focused, step-by-step and market-oriented process which gives business [...]
Corporate culture debate has to move on
This article is worth a quick look, less for the blinkered view, and more for the strength of feeling that it has provoked. Yes, corporate culture is, for now, a nebulous concept, but in hyper-competitive services markets where genuine service differentiation is difficult to come by, culture, values, personality, etc have an increasingly influential role [...]
Getting the balance right
Just back from a week skiing in the French Alps. Amazingly good snow for this time of year, great company and excellent food. Without a regular internet connection at my fingertips, I took the opportunity to catch up on some old-fashioned book reading. I’m a big fan of Paulo Coelho not just because he tells [...]
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