by Matthew Emerson | Mar 20, 2023 | Leadership Assessment, Leadership Needs Analysis, Opinion Pieces, blog
A key factor in high-performing organisations, effective leaders inspire and motivate their teams to achieve common goals, foster a positive company culture and drive business growth, in the delivery of business performance outcomes. Given the importance of such...
by Matthew Emerson | Jan 25, 2023 | Organisation Change Management
The Importance of Aligning Strategic Priorities Few people would disagree that if you employ people and pay them to do some work in your business, you want that work to be aligned with your desired outcomes. But why is it that some businesses struggle to make those...
by Matthew Emerson | Dec 15, 2022 | Organisation Change Management
Employee burn-out is a trending hot topic in the business media, with numerous surveys* citing it in staff attrition, and reports† highlighting the financial impact on organisations in terms of rising recruitment costs and workdays lost to absence. It’s enough to keep...
by Matthew Emerson | Nov 21, 2022 | Leadership Needs Analysis
Is a lack of cognitive diversity holding partnership performance back? It was Matthew Syed in his book, Rebel Ideas, who highlighted how catastrophic cognitive homogeneity could be, when he described the cumulative failures of the CIA and FBI in anticipating the Twin...
by Matthew Emerson | Oct 10, 2022 | Organisation Design
After a shaky start, the threat to legal practices from the Big Four accountancy firms has been gathering considerable momentum, with record gains made over recent years[i]. The ‘one stop shop’ model of combining lawyers with consultants and technology has met a...
