A Decade of Value Destruction

A Decade of Value Destruction

Shareholder activists are showing that even the smallest players can wield enormous influence when they call out value destruction. Their strategies and tactics offer powerful insights for industry innovators. We were given a great example this week of just how potent...
Is your Industry Rowing in the Same Direction?

Is your Industry Rowing in the Same Direction?

In sports and business, we love to see the underdog win against the odds. The ragtag sports team beating the silver tails or the small businesses besting the multinationals. These are inspiring stories, but they are outliers.  The trend for industry organisations...
How Secrecy and Silence Enable Critics

How Secrecy and Silence Enable Critics

One of the chief reasons that innovation doesn’t happen is fear of criticism from within and outside. Competent leaders inevitably make others uncomfortable. They cause change when it’s needed, creating winners and losers.  They draw criticism. Leading change...
Two Parts Preparation, One-Part Timing

Two Parts Preparation, One-Part Timing

Successes or failures with strategy and innovation are influenced by timing, although its importance is often played down for successes and emphasised with failures. Sometimes everything aligns and new products or reforms flourish and other times they fizzle. It’s a...
Believing our own rhetoric

Believing our own rhetoric

​Comparing the performance of your business, organisation or industry with others in your patch is risky. It invites a false sense of security on the urgency and the priorities for change. The real gap to monitor is where we stand relative to world class – and...