It is certain that having the right experience is one thing, but getting the most of it is another. Especially when it comes to boards. Each board member needs to fulfil their fiduciary duties; however, reliance needs to be placed on individual board members with specific skill sets. And along the way, there are challenges
In her blog Stop Looking in the Rear-view Mirror Janine Garner makes the point that our internal networking can have a much greater impact if we network in the right way. She writes: “Think about it – are you connecting, sharing insight and creating opportunities to innovate and collaborate with these groups of people or are
A great stat in this blog by Brent Hodgson – He can count five or maybe ten true “disrupter” start-ups over recent years out of 32,439 start-ups in AngelList’s directory. And we all know the overall success rates of start-ups. It just shows how fixated we are on shiny things. It’s why CEOs are way more
Sales blogger Anthony Ianarrino posted recently about some trouble he was having with Simon Sinek’s “Start with Why”. In Sinek’s well-known TED Talk he uses the example of Apple to suggest organisations should always start with their “Why”. Don’t sell What you do (…great computers), or How you do it (…beautifully designed, simple to use
Last week I wrote about Reframing Risk to find opportunities where no one else is looking. A recent blog by a legend thinker Seth Godin (author of 18 books) put a different spin on this for me. In his blog Surfing vs Coal Mining he reminds us that unexpected occurrences in surfing are a good thing.