Common Business Sense
February 27, 2017 | | Leadership

Is your Title relevant to your capability? I was recently looking at some questions on an assessment.  The question that really caught my attention related to title.  What is the highest title you have had?  My immediate thought was that this question is completely irrelevant. I have been training delegates from all walks of life over the past several years... Read More

Agile, the silver bullet
February 23, 2017 | | PMO

More and more organisations are attempting to implement Agile in order to implement their strategies, improve return on investments and to get their products to market faster than their competitor in an ever decreasing window of opportunity. Many organisations are throwing traditional waterfall methods out the window due to poor success rates.   My concern with this and my experience has... Read More

Articulating Risk is Essential
February 15, 2017 | | Risk

I have been very fortunate to work with many companies over the last few decades and risk management is very familiar.  Risk management is used with much confidence. Some organisations even have risk managers and risk departments. On conducting risk audits however, risk management starts getting a little fuzzy. Let’s look at a classic risk example that I see all... Read More

Quality and Great Leadership
February 7, 2017 | | Quality

When I lecture on Quality the first thing I do is ask my students, ‘so what is quality’? Quality means meeting expectations, quality means fit for purpose, quality means conforming to specifications.   Quality also means more features and features that are free from trouble.  Then I ask, ‘so how do we ensure quality’?  We certainly do not ensure quality... Read More

Do you want to be a Great Executive Leader?
February 6, 2017 | | Leadership

If you are arrogant, know everything and believe you are the best leader then don’t bother reading any further.  This is not for you! I will be wasting your time.  We both know time can never be recovered.  Go play golf. Now more than ever great executives are needed in these turbulent times.  It is well known that you can... Read More