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by Claire Green & Scott Potter 6 December 2024
Are You Really Doing a Business Impact Analysis?
by Claire Green and Scott Potter 12 November 2024
Resilience is critical, but when does being prepared cross the line into overkill? Some businesses invest so much in risk avoidance that they lose agility - the ability to pivot, adapt, and seize new opportunities. Overly complex plans, redundant redundancies, and rigid structures can actually hurt your organisation in the long run. How can you strike the right balance between resilience and flexibility? In our latest article, we explore the fine line between being prepared and being overly cautious - and how to keep your business agile in an unpredictable world.
by Scott Potter 1 May 2023
Future-Proof your business now to maximise AI in the workplace soon.
by Scott Potter 5 December 2022
Is the new generation of Artificial Intelligence intelligent?
Data Lake house
by Scott Potter 5 December 2022
It may be part of your company's technology estate and data infrastructure, or if it's not, it almost certainly will be. But what is it?  This is part of our ' Tech for the Exec' series.
by Scott Potter 29 May 2022
I want to overcome the negative impacts of unhealthy perfectionism
by Claire Green 25 April 2022
What is meant by systems and systems thinking? We’re not talking about computer systems or management control systems. What we are looking at is interconnectedness and viewing an organisation as a dynamic process.
Scrabble letters spelling the phrase 'Broken Crayons Still Colour'
by Scott Potter 18 February 2022
Do I want to overcome my perfectionism?
You didn't come this far to 'only' come this far.
by Scott Potter 1 February 2022
So, you want to improve your abilities and your performance. What or who do you turn to first? A colleague? A mentor? Online or classroom training courses? Or a coach? Executives and board members often turn to a coach first. But this isn’t true for all of us. Sometimes it’s simply down to cost - the cost of a personal coach is far greater than a training course or some form of internal mentoring scheme. Whilst this is true to a large extent, so too is the return on investment. And costs aren’t always prohibitive when compared to some courses. So, the problem with coaching is that it’s often overlooked and misunderstood.
by Scott Potter 10 May 2021
Dispelling myths about servant-leadership
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