Today, I want to talk about so-called ‘Resilient Leadership’. Cary Cooper, the well-known professor and business expert, depicted some while ago the hard times we live in and suggested a call for resilient leaders. He paints a vivid picture of the stresses the economy is undergoing and suspects the SME sector in particular will be severely hit. The changes coming will no longer be optional but inevitable, so embracing change becomes the mantra. To do this we need what he calls ‘resilient leaders’ and elsewhere ‘real leadership’.
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Finding Diamonds Before You Go a-Marketing
Marketing, as Peter Drucker observed, was one of the two functions that alone made money for a business – all else was a cost. Thus it is PDI – Pretty Damned Important! It’s a shame, therefore, that it only does – usually – half the job. True, that half it may do spectacularly well, but polished fake diamonds with all the branding collateral imaginable are still … only fake.
Making books
I have just had a new book published, "Insight" (http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/insight/12809764), which I am really pleased with. My friend Susan Rice-Lincoln is partially responsible since she gave me the idea – simple really, but not obvious till you get it. She said, ‘re-purpose’ your materials. What? Re-purpose your materials; make them work harder; re-use them in aContinue reading “Making books”
The Mapping Motivation Series 