What had gone wrong? I believe the business had lost sight of the basics. There was a lack of effective leadership, little strategic direction and a dearth of reporting capabilities. Not only had business plateaued, the company had lost direction and stalled. It was missing clarity and a strategic plan.
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I have been consolidating my thinking this year – being forced to stay home tends to sharpen your focus on the important things, I’ve discovered – and have calibrated my internal compass. This has given me a clear direction for the next decade in terms of what I want to deliver to the world.
I guess you could call this my ‘how’ stage of thinking. I’ve always been very good at the ‘what’ – that is, working out what I want to achieve – but it was time I pushed myself into the ‘how’ – that is, how I will go about achieving those goals.
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We hear it all the time in business, especially in times of crisis: We all need to step up. Well, if ever there was a time to do that, now is it. The COVID-19 crisis will only exacerbate the frustrations I was already seeing at levels below the CFO in many organisations. Group finance managers in larger multinational organisations have long been telling me about the challenges…
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If you are like me, the feelings of fear and uncertainty about where this COVID-19 pandemic will take us are being at least partly offset by a sense that now is the perfect time to think creatively, and disruptively, about the future and our part in it. I know some people, unfortunately, have found themselves suddenly without work, while others have been forced out of their workplaces and are working from home.
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This COVID-19 pandemic has caused, and will cause, a seismic shift in how we go about our life and business. So, with the balancing act between opportunity and danger in mind, I have put together a series of articles called Creativity in a Crisis and in this, my first one, I’m looking at the power of the trigger event.
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