Here is the uncomfortable version of how to get a leadership team out of its comfort zone: most executive teams are not avoiding the hard conversation. They’re having it, often well, often with real candour. The problem sits one layer down, in the beliefs nobody...
Nearly every executive team AJ works with can produce a moment of genuine, visible agreement: heads nodding around the table, a slide with three priorities everyone signed off on, a sense that the hard conversation finally happened. Executive team alignment looks, in...
Every leadership offsite agenda gets built the same way: someone opens a shared document, invites the team to add topics, and the day gets ordered by whoever submitted first, whoever shouted loudest in the planning call, or whoever has the most urgent-sounding...
Executive Summary Most FY plans fail because they carry too many defensible priorities, not because the ideas are weak. The real test of a priority isn’t whether it matters. It’s what it displaces. Most leadership teams can genuinely resource three to five...
When it comes to creating lasting organisational change, relying solely on facts and data is no longer enough. Instead, the key lies in understanding what I call the Point of Impact – that critical moment in time and space where a decision must be made by one or...
Today we find ourselves in a new era of business where Leaders have to grapple with rapidly advancing technology, changes in consumer behaviour and managing a multi-generational workforce. As if that wasn’t enough, on top of all of that, they have to contend with a...
