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Key Issues

This page identifies a number of key issues that managers typically face, as they lead their organisations through the challenges of change, and strive to achieve and sustain peak performance.

A menu of key issues is set out below, together with links to relevant commentaries that offer potential stepping-stones to new ideas and actions. These cover the following topics:

managing strategic and individual performance
improving leadership performance and development
leading organisational change
revitalising organisations
managing tensions and unintended outcomes
unlocking the talents of staff and channel these for business benefit
mobilising the commitment of staff
managing when common sense doesn’t seem to work
strengthening internal consultancy.
getting value for money from external consultants!

PROVOCATIONS

Published articles and informal ‘thought pieces’ which provide perspectives on issues that challenge conventional wisdom.

BOOKSHOP

An on-line bookshop, operated in association with Amazon.co.uk and featuring titles on leadership,

“QUOTE … UNQUOTE”

A selection of broadly relevant (!) quotations, which we have found interesting, stimulating or simply amusing.

“You see things as they are and ask ‘why?’
but I dream of things that never were and ask ‘why not?’”
George Bernard Shaw

Menu of If Only Issues and Links

Menu of Issues and Links to Commentaries

Each of the following If Only statements is supported by its own Issue Page which:

summarises the issue
provides more in-depth commentary and
outlines the thinking behind any relevant consulting support that the Consultancy may be able to provide.

	If Only . . . we could manage our strategic performance better and link it more imaginatively to individual performance

	If Only. . . we could improve the quality of leadership throughout the organisation.

	If Only. . . we could manage change more effectively and make the changes stick!

	If Only. . . we knew why our organisation still lacks vitality, despite the changes we've made to our strategy, structure and systems.

	If Only. . . we could anticipate and manage the tensions and unintended outcomes which always seem to arise whenever we take decisive action.

	If Only. . . we could unlock the full talents of our staff and channel them for business benefit.

	If Only. . . we could mobilise the commitment of staff, in an environment of constant change and uncertainty.

	If Only. . . the seemingly common sense initiatives we keep taking actually worked in practice!

	If Only. . . we could manage our organisational changes and developments more effectively in-house.

	If Only. . . we could get real value for money when we use external consultants.