StrategyWorks

27/11/2021

Applying my model to this business is so exhilarating

If you are in Somerset West this morning come and pick up a calendar at Radloff Park.
Or order your calendar from my website.

09/10/2019

A useful paper on culture in organisations and the role of the board

Gallup's approach to assessing culture was recently featured in NACD Directorship. Find out how to audit your organizational culture and alleviate risk.

27/06/2018

https://www.strategyworks.co.za/2018/06/confrontation/

The coming newsletter

There is real skill required to build warm relationships at the same time as you manage people to achieve high levels of delivery. Effective confrontation is therefore a critical leadership skill. But why is confrontation such a critical team-skill? Well teams are an excellent way to get complex, la...

29/05/2018

https://www.strategyworks.co.za/2018/05/leadership-self-managing-teams/

I like the iconoclastic approach of J Richard Hackman and the notion of self-managing teams...

Most organisations use leadership in teams to achieve goals Even with the best technology, most efficient processes, and most exciting ideas, you ultimately implement your strategy through people. Probably people in teams! which means you will need leadership. Unless you have these guys at your disp...

12/05/2017

Yeah a much better way of sharing on FB
My interview with Erika Kruger after my presentation to Xtraordinary Women.
Thanks Erika and the team.

www.XtraordinaryWomen.co.za Xtraordinary Women Helderberg interviews Stephen Quirke about his talk "The Secret of Turning Strategy into Money." Interviewed b...

20/04/2016

This week the news letter is about Defensive Reasoning - we all do it without thinking

A fitting illustration to a note on Defensive Reasoning don't you think?

The main protagonist in this newsletter is also accredited with averting nuclear war.

http://www.strategyworks.co.za/2016/04/defensive-reasoning/

20/04/2016

A fitting illustration to a note on Defensive Reasoning don't you think?

The main protagonist in this newsletter is also accredited with averting nuclear war.

http://www.strategyworks.co.za/2016/04/defensive-reasoning/

02/04/2016

This is the newsletter for this week

http://www.strategyworks.co.za/2016/04/left-hand-column/

Your assumptions can destroy you. And everyone else! On October 27, 1962 eleven US Navy destroyers and the aircraft carrier USS Randolph dropped practice depth charges on a Soviet Foxtrot class submarine, B59, in international waters. This was at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Unknown to…

28/03/2016

I added some cool graphic explanations to this posting


http://www.strategyworks.co.za/2015/04/undiscussable/

The real truth behind values-based change My friend Jane runs a business in which she has a handyman visiting client houses. Time and cost management are critical. One day while I was visiting, the handyman came in from a job. He had to return to the same house with equipment he had forgotten the…

22/03/2016

http://www.strategyworks.co.za/2016/03/no-2/

Getting ready for this week's newsletter
"You Shall not Pass"

A classic No in movie history. No is really short. It’s easy to pronounce. But like any magic spell, it is dangerous, sometimes difficult to voice and it takes great skill to wield. It can hurt, disappoint and anger. But handled well No can create time, space and energy. Some of us find it diffi…

02/03/2016

http://www.strategyworks.co.za/2016/03/change-agent/

Here is this week's newsletter.
Change Agents take on a difficult path. There is a way to minimise the damage, perhaps. But sometimes the idea is just too obvious and inflammatory to the establishment. So the change agent gets it. There is also a brief rant about Noakes.

If you are reading this today, there is every possibility you are alive because of this man’s research. Dr Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis was an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures. In the mid-1800s mothers giving birth had a 10 – 35% chance of dying of puerperal

17/02/2016

http://www.strategyworks.co.za/2016/02/scenario-conversation/

What do these brands have in common? Yes they misread the market famously. Of course it is easy to point fingers, but the point of this illustration is that even the best get it wrong. IBM failed to see the potential of the personal computer In the late 1980s, personal computers had been around for…