“Culture eats strategy for breakfast” management guru Peter Drucker once said. No matter how well thought out your competitive strategy is, if the people in your organisation aren’t ready, able and willing to put it into action, it’s worthless. To further illustrate the effect of culture on strategy, General George S Patton once declared that “a good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week"
 

Now, none of this is to suggest you should run your organisation like a milit...

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15 TIPS TO SALES MASTERY

The best in all walks of life at some stage made a clear decision to become the very best at what they do and immediately went to work on themselves.

Being the best in getting sales for yourself and your company requires consistency, and consistency means that you can be counted on. You become the one person that blasts your quota every time. There are several masteries required from a champion; Super sales person, negotiator, networker, super presenter, proposa...

What really happens when companies cease to be relevant to the market way before their numbers made them realize the decline?  Beyond a stock implosion and shareholder revolts, it’s organizational transformation; a reactive effect forced upon companies when the numbers don’t match expectations.

The process of transforming an organization often results in tremendous performance sacrifices while the organization prepares itself to move in a different direction by building capability for sustained success. Accord...

Time for organisation leaders to move the focus on Organisational Culture up the priority list to the top of the pile.

Successful organisation do this as a matter of course.

For those that don’t, there is added impetus to the focus on Organisational Culture with the recently announced warning by Mr Greg Medcraft, the head of the Australia’s corporate watchdog, the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC).

Mr Medcraft placed Organisational Culture at the centre of ASIC’s activities by warning compan...