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EVERY COMPANY NEEDS PEOPLE WHO CAN REGULARLY FAIL

27-May-2013 - Les Hayman “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over an... read more »

GYMNASTICS AND BUSINESS

19-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 »

TENTH RULE OF MANAGEMENT

11-Feb-2013 - 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 »

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 MANAGEMENT

05-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 »

HOW TO DRIVE PRODUCTIVITY IN YOUR TEAM

18-Jun-2012 - Les Hayman Getting the most from your people is one of the most critical goals of every manager. This doesn´t just mean that you have to get your team to work long hours and work hard, but it also means that you must ensure that your people work on the right... read more »

COME BACK E.T. EUROPE NEEDS YOU

07-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 »

THE 3 GREAT BUSINESS LIES

02-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 »

Preparing for the upturn

26-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 »

Equality Bill, Diversity Management

06-Oct-2008 - Damian Williams Diversity management is one of the largest challenges organizations will face over the next decade. Making sure an organization has a successful mix of staff from different genders, races, ages and ability levels is not only becoming a legal requi... read more »