The COVID -19 pandemic forced companies to advance in six months teleworking methods that would not be implemented in five years. While this was necessary, it has all the characteristics of firefighti…
WITH VIRTUE AND DARING
This great lesson on how to face up and win in every Crisis was given to the World by two small Countries. The Country that I was born in, Greece, and the Country that I live in, Dubai. Both those sma…
THE 90 DAYS CRISIS MANAGEMENT PLAN
The 2 main characteristics of this Crisis are its Unpredictability and the level of Changes There is no point to plan further than 90 days when the evolution of the Crisis is unpredictable, and…
TECHNOLOGY EATS CULTURE FOR BREAKFAST
(Culture eats Strategy for breakfast revisited)
Drucker has been a Business Guru for many of us. Many of his quotes have become mantras and like mantras often misunderstood. His quip about Strategy and Culture, if he really said it, is preeminent a…
DISRUPTION & THE CEO
“It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit …
THE MIDDLE MANAGER’S SHELF LIFE
The Middle Manager, for the last hundred years, was the backbone of most Companies and Corporations. In our times, when 50% of the CEOs last under two years in their job, the Middle Managers stay, at …
PRECISION & MANAGEMENT
The recent digital advances in AI and other related cognitive field have given Managers, particularly top ones/leaders the impression that higher precision in decision making is now possible. While th…
CEO YOU NEED A FOOL
“Every ruler must remember three things. Firstly, that he rules man; secondly, that he rules according to law, and thirdly, that he does not rule forever”. Agathon (448-400 BC) When you are a C…
B.o.D REDESIGNED
In my experience, being a Member of the B.o.D. in many and diverse Companies around the World, in either an executive or non-executive role, you belong to one of three categories. Executives & St…
CEOs SELECT YOUR AREAS OF LEADERSHIP
CEOs in today’s Companies of a certain size and above, cannot lead the whole vast area in which their Company exists and acts. It is physically impossible, in our times, where knowledge doubles more t…