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Short pieces drawn from the field on what moves a mid-sized company forward, and what holds it back: turnaround, transformation, succession, digital and artificial intelligence. No jargon, no theory.
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- Interim management
Interim management: what it is, and when a mid-sized company needs it
A term borrowed from large corporates, increasingly recommended by accountants, private equity funds, court-appointed administrators, prevention-network practitioners and other leadership networks for mid-sized companies. What it covers, and how it differs from a standard advisory engagement.
Read the insight - Turnaround
What the first three weeks in a struggling company reveal
What you learn by listening, and what no dashboard will show you. Why the real causes almost always sit upstream of whatever the leader points to.
Read the insight - Succession
What a buyer looks at, and what you haven't prepared
Dependence on the owner, know-how that exists nowhere in writing, figures rebuilt by hand: the six things that pull a price down, and how long they take to put right.
Read the insight - Artificial intelligence
Why an AI use case with no business owner never gets past the pilot
The projects that succeed in mid-sized companies all have one thing in common, and it is neither the budget nor the technology.
Read the insight - Performance
Three people, three different numbers for the same metric
What that says about an organisation, and why no performance management project will hold until it is sorted out.
Read the insight - Transformation
Rolling it out isn't adopting it
The tool is installed, the training has happened, and six months later the old habits are back. What goes on in between.
Read the insight - Leadership
What I learned from training my successor three times
Choose, prepare, then leave. Why the exit is designed on the first day of an engagement, not the last.
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