by Andrew Bass | "How To's", Aligning Behaviour with Strategy, Culture, Leadership
Here’s a riddle: What’s your biggest asset, AND your biggest potential liability, yet doesn’t appear on your balance sheet? Not exactly the Riddle of the Sphinx is it? The answer is, of course, your people. Here are some of my observations, based on all the...
by Andrew Bass | Change, Executive Effectiveness, Managing for Today while Managing for Tomorrow, Managing Uncertainty, Rationally Fearless
Napoleon famously called England “A nation of shopkeepers”. We’re in danger of becoming a Nation of Waiters. I’m not talking about the people who bring you lunch in a restaurant. I’m talking about people who delay and delay before taking action. It’s completely...
by Andrew Bass | Aligning Behaviour with Strategy, Articles, From Strategy to Action, Getting Buy-in, Strategy
The laser printer was whirring when the new saleswoman walked into Dave’s office. Dave was the mentor she’d been assigned when she joined the company, a multinational engineering conglomerate. He was their top sales producer. A real living legend. “You’re so lucky to...
by Andrew Bass | "How To's", Aligning Behaviour with Strategy, Change, Collaboration across the organization, Newsletter, Tools
Temptation: it always seems like a good idea at the time Many leaders I meet are searching for a silver bullet.Feeling pressure to improve performance, they look too quickly to the outside for answers—shuffling their management teams, buying and selling businesses,...
by Andrew Bass | Aligning Behaviour with Strategy, From Strategy to Action, Self-created Problems
A psychotherapist friend of mine, call him, ‘Max’, told me this story about a client he once helped. The guy said he wanted to give up smoking cannabis. He’d seen a bunch of therapists who’d tried all kinds of reasonable-sounding manoeuvres including: Education...
