Francis here. This past week we completed a webinar on setting long-term goals in your strategic planning. You probably have thought about the wisdom of this kind of thinking, but don’t know if it would work in your company. Case in point: Read More
Like most other Caribbean firms, your company has focused on its survival for the past two years. Things have been tough: retaining revenue while containing costs has been everyone’s pre-occupation. But you probably know that COVID has, in addition to closing doors, Read More
You may be like Rosemary. She’s the Managing Director of a Caribbean bank, elevated to the post mere months before the onset of the COVID pandemic. Like many leaders of companies, she’s stressed. Ever since the government started to shut down many Read More
As a manager, you may be in trouble. In the past two years, new ways of remote working have come out of nowhere and the debate is on: should you resume face-to-face working? Part of you wants work to be efficient, but Read More
What advice would a strategy expert like Dr. Robert Kaplan give to Caribbean companies? He’s been to the region several times, but his exact words haven’t been captured. Until this interview at the HRMATT Conference of 2015. As a fellow speaker, I Read More
As a manager, you may find it hard to engage in fruitful discussions about the future. You are able to speculate informally over lunch, but be unable to plan strategically in a formal session. You sense that this needs to change, but Read More
OK, your executives are nervous. Since COVID, one bad piece of news after another has led them to become expert fire-fighters. As the recession, supply-chain problems, inflation and armed conflict add up they have only focused on the organization’s survival. Period. But Read More
Do your managers complain about key strategies their predecessors failed to craft? It seems as if they have all the answers, but you suspect that they may be kidding themselves. The truth is, they may not be very different. If so, how Read More
You’re looking for a regular source of provocative ideas on strategic thinking for Caribbean companies. The success of your company depends on it, but it’s not as if you can import foreign thinking and expect it to work. And, few regional executives spend time to share their innermost thoughts, especially if they have a company to run.
Have you ever wondered whether there is a real difference between the performance ethic of men and women? You don’t want to be biased, but if all things are not equal, it would be silly to pretend as if they are. Here Read More