Hiring a new team member? Here’s how to set them (and you) up for success
So you’ve decided to take the bold, big step and move from your solo entrepreneur status by making your first hire. Or you’ve...
Strategic, Tactical and Operational Hires: making sense of it all
Strategic. Tactical. Operational. In a workplace setting, these are considered as layers of how work gets done by level of work task...
Eight personas to watch out for on the transformation journey
From my public sector experience, there are 8 personas that need to be watched out for and managed to ensure their actions do not...
Standardize, Optimize, Automate – three ways to improve your business processes (Part 1)
If your business has faced the struggle of low customer satisfaction and less-than-expected performance outcomes, an effective drill-down...
Getting into digital – one problem at a time
You may be watching the growing trends in digital from the sidelines and wondering whether you are getting left behind. It seems there is...
Planning 5 moves ahead
“The best executives are always looking 5 moves ahead” There are few things as nightmare-inducing for a business as unforeseen events....
Strategy: Unearthing Future Paths through Insights from the Past
Would you take the magical ability to see the future if you had the...
Maximize your network: 6 ways you can leverage your network to expand your business
Utilize the six roles existing in your current network to grow your...
Fixing the developer blind spot
This is more a phenomenon than an observation: the friction between those who build technology solutions for enterprises - the developers,...
Evolving, Emerging, Expiring and Enduring Skills
If you are a knowledge worker, you have a combination of skills through which you deliver your daily work. Skills for processing...
Your Own Advice Is the Hardest Pill to Swallow
Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in...
Outfit of the Day: Flower Power
Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in...
Productivity Hack Thursday: Optimizing your Data Analysis Process
If you are a data analyst (we all are to some degree), your work typically comprises 4 steps:– Data collection– Data...
How are you building your strategic thinking skills?
In a world that focuses more on consuming than creating, where the majority reacts to the news rather than shape the news, those who stay...
Let’s keep our mental health a priority
At the post office, a few weeks back, a woman beside me expressed suicidal thoughts. I was expecting the barrage of “God...