Purpose – Challenges the notion that people resist change and puts forward a strategy for getting the majority of people in an organisation to support a change initiative. Design/methodology/approach – Identifies four main groups within organisations – saboteurs, groupies, double agents...

Purpose – Vision, Mission and Values are buzzwords that many leaders have grasped on to and attempted to adopt. Most, however, have failed to inculcate the values. What is missing is a model to translate values into actions and behviours. Design/methodology/approach – The Value Inculcation...

Purpose – In the last few years the field of strategy implementation has been growing. Much of the current literature explains the “why”. This paper aims to shift the thinking from the “why” to the “how”. Leaders are now beginning to state that they understand that it is important...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine investment market strategy and risk. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a number of examples of companies which have been had either success or failure, and discusses the lessons learned. Findings – The paper finds that it is...

Purpose – In business, the statistic that nine out of ten strategies fail has gone viral over the last couple of years. A prime reason for this is that leaders are under intense pressure in the current economic conditions to deliver on their strategy promises to shareholders. This article...