Category Archives: Business Coaching
The Leapfrog Principle Redefined
What is leapfrogging?
According to John Moravec of Education Futures LLC “Leapfrogging means to jump over obstacles to achieve goals. It means to get ahead of the competition or the present state of the art through innovative, time-and-cost saving means.” www.educationfuturtes.com The power of leapfrogging is that we are not trying to catch up, or keep up, but to overtake. We shift from trying to learn from the one in front, to imagining and then creating a new reality for ourselves. Nations can leapfrog. Corporations can leapfrog. And individuals can leapfrog Read More...
Why bother with a STRATEGY?
Life without a STRATEGY
Stressed out running your business or organisation? Recognising you don’t have enough time for other things in life, like family? Or just feeling out of control? Maybe you’ve never stopped to think about the direction you want to go in. Or never believed you had any choice.
Having a strategy sounds like being tied down to a plan. As Eisenhower may have said, “No plan survives first contact with the enemy.” So we convince ourselves there is no good purpose in wasting time writing a strategic plan.
Eisenhower again: “Planning is everything, plans are nothing.” Now this I Read More...
In pursuit of business EXCELLENCE
Where do you start?
“Excellence in performance and in life begins with a vision of where you want to go and a commitment to do what it takes to get there.” These words open Terry Orlick’s masterful book In Pursuit of Excellence in which he describes the mental skills and positive thinking required to Read More...