How Culture will save or kill your business

How Culture will save or kill your business

Lessons from Jesper Brodin, CEO of IKEA, how culture empowered 170,000 internal entrepreneurs to secure IKEA’s business in a global catastrophe IKEA is one of the most remarkable retail success stories of recent years, built on a clever combination of affordability,...
Your strategy isn’t the problem

Your strategy isn’t the problem

Why organisations fail in a volatile world and why clear context is the new competitive advantage Something is happening to organisations globally that is paralysing adaptability, destroying agility, and undermining confidence and drive in teams.  It’s crisis with...
Holy shit we’re in the soup again

Holy shit we’re in the soup again

Lessons from CEOs successfully navigating economic and political uncertainty, social upheaval and climate change These are challenging times in which to run a business of any kind. In conversations with CEOs across sectors and geographies, the consistent message is of...
Why transformation is a function of culture not process

Why transformation is a function of culture not process

With €13 billion in annual revenue, the Turkish white goods business Arçelik has grown into a global white goods behemoth. But how do you align 55,000 employees across 58 countries, 22 brands, and 46 production facilities behind a single strategic vision? What CEO...
Beyond profit: How a shared direction lifts performance

Beyond profit: How a shared direction lifts performance

How do you know if purpose is working effectively in your culture?  And if it isn’t, why not? The single-minded purpose of business for the last 50 years has been simple; as exemplified in Milton Friedman’s maxim, it has been to generate profits for its shareholders....