Unlocking Success: The Key Questions You NEED to Ask About Your Stakeholders

Premise: We now live in a world where we are going through a change of one kind or another. Even when we are not leading a change initiative, we are, at all times collaborating with others, who are not part of our team, people who have a different goal than our own, people whose contribution might be critical for our success. In such scenarios, one of the skills that becomes critical for our success is our ability to align and influence the various stakeholders that we work with. I have found that it helps if we are intentional about how […]

Never Ready, until we have to be!

We are never really ready for a challenge, until we have to be. If we are ready for it, we have waited too long to take on the challenge. We need to believe that we can learn as we go along depending on what we need to learn. As they say, when the student is ready, the teacher appears! So, trust in your ability to learn and adjust. Take on the challenge before you’re fully ready.

PBTO: Goldratt’s Rules of Flow – Delivering Projects on-time on-budget and on-spec and driving up profitability

https://traffic.libsyn.com/pushingbeyondtheobvious/PBTO__Goldratts_Rules_of_Flow_-_Delivering_Projects_on-time_on-budget_and_on-spec_and_driving_up_profitability.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Email | RSSThis is the recording of a live conversation I had with Dr. Efrat Goldratt-Ashlag to explore how the principles from the Theory of Constraints can be applied to multi-project environments (Digital transformation efforts) to deliver projects on time, on budget and on spec. She shared insights from her latest book (now available in Worldwide) Goldratt’s Rules of Flow to help us understand how to increase the velocity and throughputs of project deliveries within our organisation. We covered the following topics in the conversation: 1. Introducing the work of Dr. Efrat Goldratt-Ashlag 2. […]

Addressing the Elephant in the Room

Premise: One of the responsibility of a leader is to be able to tell people what they think about them, their potential, performance and presence. Sometimes it is good news and sometimes not so. It is easy when we it is good news. So, we tend to share this often and easily. However, it is difficult to share the bad news and many leaders tend to post-pone this conversation as it is uncomfortable, both for them and to those they are delivering it. However, the more we delay sharing the bad news, the worse it gets and the more difficult […]