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 New Boss a Tyrant?

Is Your New Boss a Tyrant?

Valuable advice I received when I first started consulting was that too many people leave their corporate jobs to go out on their own, only to discover they now have a tougher boss. It seems that many people are finding themselves in this situation with the rapid...
A Matter of Perspective

A Matter of Perspective

Business leaders and industry organisations tend to overestimate the risk and underestimate the potential of innovating. They lose perspective. It’s easy to forget that we’re all living in a thin biosphere 20 kilometres deep on a planet spinning at over 1500...
How a Quick Fix Mindset is High Cost

How a Quick Fix Mindset is High Cost

American journalist Henry Mencken once said that for every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. There is an instinctive appeal for a quick fix.  Then later, there is disappointment when the quick fix fails and you thud back to...