Shipping is key. Your project started as an idea. Perhaps you created and worked your plan. Now you have finished the work. It is packed and ready to go. Now all you have to do is send it off. Simple right? Pasop!!! This is often the time when the demons of resistance and self-doubt strike [...]
‘It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.’ The Fellowship prepare to leave Rivendell on the journey to destroy the ring. But Sam feels they are dawdling. But how to start? How to take the first step? Anyone who has circled around a task, not knowing where to begin will know this [...]
Conversaction Newsletter – Week 1 August 2020 You have defined your strategy. You have a roadmap to achieve your strategy. Your executives are energised and ready to lead. Your staff are poised, eager to roll. Now what? … Now is the time for effective planning. And execution! With the change in which we all are [...]
You have your Strategy, your business model in strategy map format and your plan or Balanced Scorecard. You have your execution engine. You have even oiled the gearbox translating the daily work of individuals into relevant effort. Now all you need is fuel for your strategy engine. How do you get each person to do [...]
End your struggle with procrastination This is pathos. Though couched in humour, so much of Calvin’s experience cuts to the heart. We can all relate to this message. Procrastination is one of our besetting problems. The search for ‘Procrastination Jokes’ returns 527,000 results in 0.31 seconds in Google. This is a big deal in [...]
William Cobbett once used a smoked (therefore reddish brown) herring to distract a pack of hounds from the scent of a hare. Then on 14 February 1807 he used the incident to criticise the English Press who had mistakenly reported the defeat of Napoleon calling it a ‘political red herring’. And so the term ‘Red [...]
