Five Strategic Tips for a Profitable Future
Five Strategic Tips for a Profitable Future by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions A recently published book, Understanding Michael Porter: The essential guide to competition and strategy...
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The Motivation Trap by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions Why motivation alone is not enough, you need more… Imagine what would happen if your favorite football team took the field and the...
View ArticleDo You Have the 3 Factors for Organizational Resilience?
Do You Have the 3 Factors for Organizational Resilience? How to assess and develop your organization’s resilience. *by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions Resilience – a word more often abused...
View ArticleLeadership – the Ticking Talent Time Bomb
Leadership – the Ticking Talent Time Bomb by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit Solutions Forecasts on where the future leaders will come from, and where they will not! Are you worried about the...
View ArticleHow to Manage Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity – Part 2
How to Manage Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity – Part 2 4 ways how leaders can deal with volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. by Andrew Cooke, Growth & Profit...
View ArticleThe Conflict Management Strategies Matrix
Four key strategies to use when managing conflict, and when to use them When assessing what strategy to use in managing the conflict there are two key criteria: the importance of the outcome and the...
View ArticleFreedom & Choice
Choosing your own way, and choosing to be free of interference from others in doing so What does freedom mean to you? You will come up with many answers covering many concepts, situations or contexts...
View ArticleStressed? It’s a Matter of Perspective and Choice!
A simple lesson for managing your stress. I’d like to share a short story I came across a long time ago. While it is short, the story is full of insights, learning, and wisdom. “A psychologist walked...
View ArticleThe Three Areas of Leadership Focus
Self-focus, others focus and a wider world focus Being a leader is continually demanding role. To be effective you not only need to know what to focus on, but also what to not focus on. This is made...
View ArticleThe Paradox of Choice
Giving greater choice does not mean more will be chosen! Most people believe that having a choice is good. The belief here is that choice gives us freedom, so if we have more choices we have more...
View ArticleWhat Do You Need to be Successful?
And the answer is…… So you want to be successful? But is that enough to be so? We all know that just because you want something does not make it so. Success requires one thing and one thing only –...
View ArticleHow Do People Respond?
Understand how people can react – whether they take control of themselves, or abdicate responsibility… There is a simple, but useful tool that helps you to understand how people respond to situations,...
View ArticleManaging the Monkey!
How to free time, reduce your to-do list, and move back to managing from being managed!!! Many managers often find themselves with long to-do lists which get longer, with more seeming to have been...
View ArticleFour Questions to Debrief and Learn
Four key questions by which to learn from your experiences! We often get so involved in doing the work, that we rarely make the time to review how we are doing in a structured and creative manner that...
View ArticleFive Strategies for Growing Successfully
Not all growth is good growth, five tips to help you ensure that growth is good Do you want to grow your business? If so, do you know how you are going to grow the business? And are you aware of the...
View ArticleThe Conflict Outcomes Matrix
The four alternative results you can realize in any conflict There are four outcomes that can result from a conflict between the two main protagonists, depending who ‘wins’ and who ‘loses’. The...
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