How does a business get more return from its existing assets? It is easy to become obsessed with winning new business, entering new markets, creating new brands and more – when the chances are you have untapped millions sitting in your office. You just ...

Alex Ferguson published his bestselling book ‘Leading’ this September. In his eight lessons, he cites #4 as Never Ever Cede Control. Although this clearly worked well for Ferguson in his 27-year tenure of Manchester United football club, I have been ...

We are often asked to work with senior leadership teams to improve their performance. I talked in an earlier blog about the need to align teams with the strategy to deliver it successfully. And of course, the teams themselves need to be high performing ...

You have spent weeks if not months, coming up with and articulating your business strategy. Signing it off feels as if you have crossed the winning line. But the reality is you are only on the starting block of delivering it. And that is the hardest challenge. ...

In the last few months I have been speaking to a lot of corporates as I set up my new business, Corporate Faculty I have been mulling over a recurring theme; I keep hearing about corporates that have run very expensive and thorough executive education ...

 The papers this week are full of Tesco as it plunged to its worst-ever pre-tax loss of £6.38bn. There is plenty of discussion around its strategy and ‘where did it go wrong?’ For years, Tesco was ‘cheap’ but in recent years it has tried to ...