Leadership Advisory

Your Exec Committee and their direct reports will need to focus on the leadership needed for digital transformation. This is a whole-company initiative and covers organisational, behavioural and technical transformation. Your leadership is what makes the difference.

Emotionally Resonant: Why Rational and Competent Ideas Often Fail to Spread, but Emotion Persists

Emotionally Resonant: Why Rational and Competent Ideas Often Fail to Spread, but Emotion Persists

In a world overflowing with information, ideas rarely spread simply because they are correct. They spread because they resonate emotionally. Logic explains; emotion, curiosity and identity drive messages between people

Innovation

Innovation

Innovation transforms creative ideas into commercial advantage through new products, processes, or business models. It's essential for survival: regular innovation protects market position, drives differentiation, and builds resilience. Without it, businesses face decline and obsolescence.

Critical Experiences for Career Growth

Critical Experiences for Career Growth

Career growth isn’t random, it’s built on the right blend of experiences. Stretch roles, cross-functional exposure, people leadership, external perspective, and learning from failure shape future leaders. The key lies in progression, not accumulation, with 70/20/10 as a guiding balance.

Most Advanced, Yet Acceptable - The Human Side of MAYA

Most Advanced, Yet Acceptable - The Human Side of MAYA

Humanising transformation applies Raymond Loewy’s MAYA principle - Most Advanced, Yet Acceptable - to change. Resonant Leadership explains the “why”, builds trust, and fosters belonging. Progress comes in small steps, turning delivery into adoption and communities into performance.

Productivity Increase Drivers

Productivity Increase Drivers

Productivity grows through technology and AI, skilled workers, improved tools and infrastructure, effective management, and supportive policies, boosting output per worker, spurring innovation, and raising living standards year after year.

Financial Efficiency

Financial Efficiency

Financial efficiency is the strategic use of resources to maximise value and minimise costs. It spans cash flow, working capital, cost structures, capital allocation, technology, process controls, performance analytics, supplier management, risk, and structure - driving sustainable savings.

Reciprocation Bias: Daily Life and Workplace Impact

Reciprocation Bias: Daily Life and Workplace Impact

Reciprocation bias drives us to repay favours, often disproportionately. From free samples triggering purchases to workplace obligations creating career traps, this pressure shapes daily decisions. Learn to recognise when gratitude becomes manipulation and respond thoughtfully.

Rethinking your Organisation

Rethinking your Organisation

The impact of Covid-19 along with any major disruption requires leaders to reimagine and reinvent the business itself. There is a particular flow through some of the Insight posts that you may find helpful. We list them here.

Communicating...and silence is still communicating

Communicating...and silence is still communicating

Many businesses stop communicating when faced with uncertainty, crisis or anxiety, but communication becomes ever more important. If you’re not actively communicating with your people, they’ll still be getting a message loud and clear – but not one you necessarily want them to hear.