Employees Are The Organisation

As part of management’s role to manage its resources for maximum benefit is its duty to preserve its assets and ensure they remain maximally effective. In any organisation, a large proportion of the assets (resources for production) lies within its employees’...

Jettison The Unproductive

Peter Drucker wrote, “[t]here is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.” To that pearl of wisdom, we could add “or should not be done any more.” A critical part of management’s role in managing resources for...

Effective Management Is Essential

Management is concerned with the productive use of resources, of getting the most value (outputs), from the inputs under its influence and control. With management having such a pivotal role in the maximising of benefits, it behoves us to ensure our best people are...

Organisational Momentum

The programmes and or successes of yesterday can become a burden for today if an organisation’s activities are not continuously evaluated for effectiveness. We must all remember that the purpose of an organisation is not only or simply self-perpetuation; it is to...

Crafting The Future

Business prophets tend to remember their prophecies that came true, but they don’t advertise what they didn’t prophecise, and they (conveniently) tend to overlook their failures to predict correctly and or accurately. Not only is selective memory a challenge to...

Integrity

Although the concept may be a little obscured by technology, social media, and our near chaotic environments (amongst other factors), at the core of all human relationships, and therefore business relationships, is the concept of integrity. Nobody can consistently...