I had a discussion with a colleague this week about my research topic and his view was that I was wasting my time. Not the first person to say that by the way. However his reason related to his view that employees don’t care about the business’ strategy so trying to measure their level of […]
These two words are often used interchangeably in many organisations and in business articles and books. However they have two very different connotations especially in terms of strategy. If a strategy is implemented then it implies that it was not in the business previously i.e. either the business didn’t have a strategy or this is […]
Had a great meeting with one of my supervisors this week. We discussed working my literature review into something suitable to be submitted for publication. He encouraged me to put three – four hypothesis’ together and to start to build out 3-4 pieces of work around what can go wrong. Described as a staking a […]
I had my last “application’ meeting on Tuesday (which I found quite draining) for the DBA. Hopefully I will have some good news early next week. Each meeting refines the scope of the question. Still firmly in the ‘why strategy fails’ however it will probably make certain assumptions about the strategy design stage and the […]
Leadership Transitions 