This morning I saw this checklist in HBR’s Management Tip of the Day and I thought it was worth sharing. It is “A Checklist to Help You Make Better Decisions Faster”: Write down five company goals that will be impacted by the decision. This helps you avoid…
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. . . is a bunch of “fluff”, think again! I read an article in HBR recently, “Why Leadership Development Has to Happen on the Job”. The article talks about a leadership meeting that was planned at Twitter for its 100 top global leaders. The “content” of the…
As we enter into commercial relationships with our trading partners, we tend to spend much more time working on the pre-nuptial agreement and less time on establishing the kind of relationship that will lead to a successful marriage. Prior to executing a contract, NO Value has been exchanged…
It is no longer a hypothesis that our current processes used to establish commercial relationships are flawed – on both the buy and sell side. Yet we keep trying to optimize each side of the process (which logically may mean we are increasing the value destruction) and don’t…
Last week I wrote about how organizations have recognized that the Finance function can and should be playing a more strategic role within the company. Agreed. Sounds great – ALL finance professionals need to be more strategic. It’s hard to argue with that BUT what does it really…