Preparing for the upturn26-Mar-2009 - Damian Williams Global leaders are taking care to avoid losing talented players during the current downturn in the market, according to research published by Deloitte. Not only do they understand the importance of talent management but they are also taking ... read more » |
CAN WOMEN LEAP HIGHER UP THE MANAGEMENT LADDER20-May-2013 - Les Hayman “For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.” Written by Isabelle Allende, world famed Chilean author. Autho... read more » |
MOVING AT THE SPEED OF SHELF LIFE15-Apr-2013 - Les Hayman The dictionary defines shelf life as “the length of time that foods, beverages, pharmaceutical drugs, chemicals and many other perishable items are given before they are considered to be unsuitable for sale, use or consumption”. Author: Jü (own w... read more » |
MYTHS ABOUT MANAGEMENT01-Apr-2013 - Les Hayman “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” American President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) Source: The White House Historical Association; vi... read more » |
WOULD DISASTER HAVE STRUCK LEHMAN SISTERS ?12-Nov-2012 - Les Hayman I have been inspired by Jonas Ridderstrale, a speaker at the AtelierSAP conference in Berlin last week, to speculate on what would be the state of the world today if Lehman Brothers had not been founded in 1850 by Henry, Emanuel and Mayer, but ha... read more » |
FIFTH RULE OF MANAGEMENT05-Nov-2012 - Les Hayman The first rule of management is that successful management is actually more about how you manage yourself rather than being about how you manage others (see “First rule of management” posted June 25, 2012). The second rule of management is that t... read more » |
HERO TO ZERO IN THE CORNER OFFICE29-Oct-2012 - Les Hayman I find it interesting that many people seem to have an assumption that a senior executive who has shown a measure of success for some time will continue to do so ad infinitum. This belief in an executive’s ability to sustain a never ending “onwar... read more » |
WHY NEAR ENOUGH IS MOSTLY GOOD ENOUGH15-Oct-2012 - Les Hayman “As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.” Albert Einstein via Wikimedia Commons I have realized over my 40 year career that in most business situati... read more » |
Nakisa Partner Forum 201210-Oct-2012 - Stephen Burr At the June HR 2012 conference in Milan, conversations with Nakisa’s VP of Alliances set the seeds of an idea to run a Nakisa Partner Forum. This resulted in Stephen Burr, our Global Nakisa lead, being invited to Nakisa’s head of... read more » |
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TO BE OR NOT TO BE … A MANAGER20-Aug-2012 - Les Hayman The best job I ever had was being a computer salesman for Digital Equipment Corporation in the 1970’s. I was the only one in my territory of the South Island of New Zealand and my boss was miles away in Auckland so I saw him only rarely. I shared... read more » |
HR …. WHY IS NO-ONE LISTENING ?30-Jul-2012 - Les Hayman Everyone continually tells HR people that they need to become more strategic, that “HR needs to get a seat at the table”. Author: TUBS (own work); vie Wikimedia Commons I have been hearing this admonition for decades, and yet beyond the advice ... read more » |
WHEN HEAD OFFICE BECOMES A LIABILITY23-Jul-2012 - Les Hayman The most feared words in any field organisation, irrespective of industry, number of employees or revenues are “Hello, I’m from Head Office and I am here to help.” I spent the first twelve years of my working life as a “Techie”, initially as a pr... read more » |
ARE YOU AN AUTOCRATIC OR PERMISSIVE MANAGER ?04-Jun-2012 - Les Hayman Management styles are mainly based on the two key elements of how one goes about making decisions and how one relates to people, which tend to point towards someone being either an autocratic or a permissive manager. Whilst many managers may hav... read more » |
Upgrading Visualization Solutions by Nakisa (Part 3) – Carrying out the upgrade24-May-2012 - Stephen Burr In part 1 I discussed why customers “bother” to upgrade their current Visualization Solutions by Nakisa (VSN) applications. In part 2, I discussed what you should know beforehand so that the environment is ready to install ... read more » |
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Upgrading Visualization Solutions by Nakisa (Part 2) – Preparing the Environment22-May-2012 - Stephen Burr In part 1 I discussed why customers “bother” to upgrade their current Visualization Solutions by Nakisa (VSN) applications. In this part, I will discuss what you should do to prepare the environment ready to install... read more » |
Upgrading Visualization Solutions by Nakisa (Part 1) – Why bother?18-May-2012 - Stephen Burr Visualization Solutions by Nakisa (VSN) was “born” in November 2007 when Nakisa’s products became a solution extension of SAP. Since that initial 1.0 release, the product has evolved, most recently with the release ... read more » |
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The Power of Visualisation18-Apr-2012 - Stephen Millard Overload Before we dive straight in I’d like you to take a few moments to consider a few questions.... Do you know how much data your brain can hold? Have you considered how much data gets channelled around the Internet every mi... read more » |
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WHY CEOs FAIL09-Apr-2012 - Les Hayman A lot of CEOs don’t succeed, and some who do, do so only for a short time. I have come to the conclusion that there are a number of different reasons that CEOs fail. Here are 10 of the most common ones. 1. Outlive the Founder/CEO role There comes... read more » |
HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN YOU SHOULD STEP ASIDE ?02-Apr-2012 - Les Hayman I have always believed that someone in a senior executive role, particularly a CEO, should not stay in the job for more than about 5-6 years, as I believe that everything that you will do after that is likely to be just a rerun, and you will also... read more » |
ENGAGEMENT HAS A NICE RING TO IT05-Mar-2012 - Les Hayman I have long found it worrying that all of the numerous studies of employee engagement point to the fact that at any one point in time, in most companies, only about one-third of employees are fully engaged, with about one-third partially engaged,... read more » |
COME BACK E.T. EUROPE NEEDS YOU07-Nov-2011 - Les Hayman Here we are in November 2011 and despite efforts by the Greek Prime Minister to personally derail the rescue, the Euro has been resolutely saved … yet again. This time all that was needed was to increase the European Financial Stability Facility ... read more » |
IT’S NOT ABOUT THE MONEY …..24-Oct-2011 - Les Hayman I understand that the salary that you are paid for the work that you do is important, but there are many things that are more important if you want to have a successful career, and to ultimately do well. By Hersfold; via Wikimedia Commons Here ... read more » |
BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ISN’T CHANGING QUICKLY ENOUGH10-Oct-2011 - Les Hayman If global competition and business processes are changing so quickly, why aren’t our leadership practices changing at the same rate to keep up with business needs? A recent study carried out by Development Dimensions International (DDI), a US bas... read more » |
DO WOMEN MAKE BETTER MANAGERS ?22-Nov-2010 - Les Hayman I was recently asked during a press interview to describe the best boss that I had ever worked for. It wasn’t hard to do, as during my time at Sun Microsystems, when asked to drive a global project for 6 months in the US, I had the opportunity to... read more » |
SELL, SELL, SELL01-Nov-2010 - Les Hayman Nothing happens in this world until somebody sells something! Which makes “selling” the noblest profession of them all !! It may not officially be the oldest profession, but I doubt that even that could have existed without some sales effort. I a... read more » |
THE PROBLEM WITH COMPROMISE06-Sep-2010 - Les Hayman I have always hated compromise! I believe that the problem with compromise is that no-one really gets what they want and therefore no-one is really committed to the success of the compromise decision, and I find this to be as true in pe... read more » |
IT WAS GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME16-Aug-2010 - Les Hayman When I was appointed to the SAP Global Extended Board in 1999, my bosses at the time (the Global CEO and the Board Chairman) approved my title as “CEO Asia Pacific, Board Member SAP-AG”. This was based on the fact that no-one outside of Germany r... read more » |
THE THREE ENVELOPES09-Aug-2010 - Les Hayman Just after I was appointed to the role of IT Manager at International Harvester NZ about 40 years ago, a colleague told me a story that highlighted the tenuous nature of management roles. It involved the removal of a CEO by his board after the co... read more » |
THE 3 GREAT BUSINESS LIES02-Aug-2010 - Les Hayman It is incredible that marketing organisations within companies spend such an incredible amount of time developing a company’s mission, vision and values statements and yet they all tend to come up with basically the same things over and over aga... read more » |
HR … THE PESTO EFFECT22-Jul-2010 - Les Hayman A number of people have asked me to write of my experiences running a company internal HR department after 40 years in business roles. When I was first asked whether I would do this, rather than retiring, I felt that it was a bit like asking Attil... read more » |
GYMNASTICS AND BUSINESS19-Jul-2010 - Les Hayman Some time ago I was surprised to learn that in gymnastics competitions at global levels such as the Olympics, achieving a “perfect score” for a perfectly executed routine in any of the disciplines, needs more than just the perfection of the routi... read more » |
FLOGGING A DEAD HORSE02-Jul-2010 - Les Hayman I have lived and worked in Europe for the last 9 years after more than 30 years working in the IT Sector in NZ, Australia, Singapore and the USA, and have worked with, for, and also been responsible for, hundreds of different Managers at varying ... read more » |
Getting the Best Future for Your Company01-Jun-2009 - Stephen Burr Early May saw SAP release the latest “Enhancement Package” (EhP4); these packages are SAP’s way of deploying new software functionality to customers without disruption. Although there are notable improvements in the core HC... read more » |
Equality Bill, Diversity Management06-Oct-2008 - Damian Williams Diversity management is one of the largest challenges organisations will face over the next decade. Making sure an organisation has a successful mix of staff from different genders, races, ages and ability levels is not only becoming a legal requi... read more » |
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