When talking with the shareholders and directors of major corporations, it is increasingly common to hear them talk of the difficulty they experience in maintaining control over their corporations and, more importantly, ensuring that the corporation delivers that which is expected of it by its...

What has 40-years of helping corporations and organisations taught us?

We have learned that there are 12 Pivot-Points in every organisation that must be conquered to satisfy that organisation’s objectives. Failure in any of these Pivot-Points will compromise objectives and may even cause...

Let’s consider the empathy issue more deeply than the previous brief mentions.

We have seen how EQ (read here the article on EQ/ Emotional intelligence) is critical to a leader’s tools. Empathy is an integral element of EQ.

Empathy is the characteristic of understanding, being aware...

There are many people who argue that emotional intelligence (EQ) is more important than general intelligence (IQ).

The reality of course, is that both are very important, and context plays a key role in determining which is more critical in a particular situation.
From the perspective of...

According to the Cambridge Dictionary, your ego is “your idea or opinion of yourself, especially your feeling of your own importance and ability.”[1]

In psychoanalytic terms, the ego attempts to achieve one’s hidden desires within the demands of the real world.

These two...

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Step One

1. Identify the outcomes (KPOs) you require your marketing activities to deliver.

For example, are those marketing activities intended to grow the number of...

In a previous article, we discussed the “inner” and personal values of all people, and specifically of leaders, and of the impact that these “inner” subjectivities can have on a leader’s journey.

When the leader exposes their values to the organisation, they...

We all have a reasonably accurate view of ourselves – regardless of how we present ourselves to others. Most of us know or suspect our “true selves.”

Similarly, we each have a reasonable understanding of what we consider “right” and what we consider...

At Advisory & Mentoring, there isn't a month where we see companies of all sizes being negatively impacted by poor strategy implementation.

What if ... your business could discover the roadmap to deliver effective strategy implementation?

The first option is for us to talk and work together...

There is no organisation that has no problems.

Every organisation is faced with a range of challenges – some of them are problems that impede their efforts to deliver their objectives – and some are opportunities that also generate problems associated with adaptation, adoption,...

The world is in turmoil.

We are living through major pressures for change – pressures that are forcing us to move us away from what we know and what we are experienced in dealing with, and into an unsure and riskier place.

These pressures include geo-political instability, the pandemic,...

With so much change occurring across the entire economy and society, communications have become the critical link between the organisation and every one of its stakeholders; between achieving your objectives, and not; between increasing your risk, and managing your risk; between being perceived...