Category: Insight Edge

Sound familiar? It was written in 1991 by Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, in the Harvard Business Review. Change is not new. Transformational change wasn’t invented this year. Not even this century. But, the imperative has increased. If there isn’t an obvious threat in their market, most business leaders assume that it’s only a matter of […]

Google ‘create a company vision’, and you will have enough reading material to keep you busy until next Christmas, but it won’t leave you much time to actually create the vision you are after. But create it you must. In times of constant change, your company vision is a touchstone. It is your aspirational image of […]

The Surf Life Saving Foundation has the charter of raising funds to enable the operations of Surf Live Saving Australia. Originally a state-based organisation, SLSF became a national body in 2010. In 2013 the Foundation was integrated into Surf Life Saving Australia to become a single national entity. The two organisations combined to create a […]

It seems that any discussion on organisational change takes one of two lines: either ‘change or die’; or ‘change is likely to fail’. Statistics like 50 percent to 70 percent of planned organisational changes efforts fail (Centre for Creative Leadership, 2015) or “two-thirds of organisational changes have a negative impact on employee engagement”. (CEB, 2015) […]

– Chris Burnett, FAIM Does your business have a clear vision? Where is it headed? Where are you hoping to lead your team? Do you have an answer to these questions? Is it clear, concise, aspirational, shared? Does the team get it? Are they on board? Congratulations, you’ve got that vision thing nailed. Move along. […]

FinTech companies use advanced technological solutions and data analytics to create new efficiencies and reduced costs in financial services. Leaders of the incumbents, banks around the world, are acutely aware of the wave of disruption headed their way. We asked, how are leaders responding to the threat, and what can leaders from other industries learn […]

“When I park the car at the factory, there’s a piece of gaffer tape they’ve put on the floor, I’ve got to walk from the gaffer tape all the way through to my office without talking to anyone at all. Apparently I keep interfering.” That’s one approach an Australian family business has recently resorted to, […]

Failure rates for corporate change are high. Some statistics suggest they are as high as 70 per cent. What are the mistakes that too many change leaders continue to make? 1. Misdiagnosing scope Who will be affected, how much it will cost, how long it will take and how radical does a change need to […]

In order to do its job – to clarify, inspire, motivate, and focus the team towards a shared vision of the future – a business’s vision must be shared. Sharing your vision is a process. It is not an event or an announcement or a workshop. The leader’s task is to communicate it clearly, consistently […]