Rising To A Challenge
This morning I made one of my too infrequent visits to Alex Bellinger’s excellent Smallbizpod, and had a listen to his interview with Doug Richards, serial entrepreneur and one of the Dragons.
Alex asked Doug what the one thing a small business should do in the current business environment. He said constantly [...]

“Disengaged Employees. Hamstrung Innovation. Inflexible Organisations.”

The headline is from Gary Hamel and Bill Breen’s book, The Future of Management, which I have been critiquing and reflecting on in my past few posts.
My overwhelming impression of the book is that while there is much to agree with, it is far too long on overstatement and short [...]

People are intelligent, resourceful and want to a good job. Many have these things throttled out of them as the years go by.

Some questions for you:
Do you listen to the people you are responsible for?
How do you see them?
Are they to be trusted? Would they waste all their time on Facebook if they weren’t watched [...]