Encourage innovation

Innovation is the third topic that was consistently at the top of the agenda for the businesses that attended Scala’s International Development Programme, and amongst our speakers, and the companies we visited. (Please click here for the other two on culture,...

Happy Holidays

 A big thank you for following us over the first six months of publication of this newsletter. There is a bewildering array of stuff out there, and our aim has been to choose the topics, and the thinkers that offer the most useful insights to help you manage...

Where accelerated development doesn’t work

Last week, I set out two scenarios (which, by the way, I have witnessed directly) about people who were clearly out of their depth in the supposedly career enhancing posts they had been appointed to. I will be dissecting these over the next couple of weeks. Our...

Match the person with the business challenges

This week I wish to comment on the second scenario of my blog of two weeks ago. It concerns the ‘high potential’ person, newly-appointed to a CEO role, on route to a much larger senior leadership role. Let’s call this person “AJ.” He is...