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Paula Kensington
How can we take the ecosystem of a major transport hub, such as an airport and apply those fundamentals of structure, process and people to our own professional journey.
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Prepare for the worst and hope for the best: your personal brand continuity plan
Paula Kensington
A BCP is a document outlining what processes should be followed in an emergency. All the hard thinking and planning for what action to take when we are faced with a ‘trigger event’ has all been done in ‘peaceful’ times, when we could approach it in a methodical, clear-minded way, rather than in an environment clouded with emotion.
Read MoreThe ‘heuristic’ approach to disrupting time and meaning
Paula Kensington
This era of COVID-19 has given me pause to think about – and rethink – a lot of my assumptions and things I have taken for granted. Like the concept of time and the meaning of the words we throw around with abandon.
Read MoreAn Act in Three Parts: Igniting Sustainable Platforms
Paula Kensington
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.
Read MoreCreativity in a Crisis, Part III: If Your CFO Doesn’t Care, You Should...
Paula Kensington
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…
Read MoreCreativity in a Crisis, Part II: Finding Clarity in the Chaos
Paula Kensington
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.
Read MoreCreativity in a Crisis, Part I: Is This Your Trigger Event?
Paula Kensington
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.
Read MoreWhat’s the real cost of a CEO and how do you work out if you’re getting what you paid for?
Paula Kensington
With all employees now being held accountable for the rewards upon which their role delivers, why do we not hold our ‘pinnacle role’ at the top of the structure to the same degree and what time-frame do we give our leaders to deliver? What does it take to really deliver value to an organisation and how is that top role really measured on what they achieve?
Read MoreThe value proposition: what are we really adding...
Paula Kensington
Do you ever get the feeling the word value is used so liberally these days that it has lost its value? We’re constantly being told what ‘value for money’ we’re getting when we make purchases; that a service provided is ‘good value’; or that we need to ‘value add’ in our own workplaces.
Read MoreMaking your decisions count
Paula Kensington
Conventional wisdom says we each make 35,000 conscious, sub-conscious and unconscious decisions a day.
These decisions might crop up in a business or professional environment, in our personal life, in our circle of family and friends, or in a community/public context. Some are far more important than others, of course, and sometimes a seemingly minor decision can flow on to major consequences.
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