How to improve performance in real-time

This week I have further reflected upon the Measure what matters, in particular the question: how do we know that we are on the right track even when we have set our mission, objectives and key results? In order to reach our Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), these should be supported by what John Doerr […]

How to measure what matters

In Measure What Matters: OKRs – The Simple Idea That Drives 10x Growth, John Doerr explains why measuring what matters helps you to plan, track and achieve success. It makes intuitive sense anyway: if you are not measuring your progress, how would you know that you are really hitting your goals? In a sea of […]

How to create Blue Oceans for breakthrough ideas

These past few weeks I have been reading Blue Oceans Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant. Many of us look at the current systems as they are and try to beat the competition or work within that system to bring change. But our existing systems are what the authors, […]

How to embrace leadership as a habit

Most of us have lots of ideas what we’d like to be like, what we intend to commit to, and what “success” looks like for us. We have in other words a vision, a dream of something that drives us, and that enables us to build strategies into our career plans so that we tick […]

How to progress individual success within an organisation

Most of us are very good at telling others what we have achieved, which milestones we have cracked, which committees we sit on and how we keep going from win to win. But we often struggle to explain how all of our individual actions fit into the broader goals and vision of the organisation that […]

How to immediately boost organisational performance

Countless books, podcasts and articles tackle this fundamental question: how do you boost an organisation’s performance and do it quickly and effectively. Google gives 7,430,000 results for “how to boost organisational performance”. We often look for different metrics across organisations, and make decisions how to run things more effectively in the hope of increasing performance. […]