RN#12 Value-Based Organizations are the Companies of the Future

There is nowhere in the world where a group of people achieved excellence and results without a shared culture. It is about maintaining and celebrating a common understanding of the way things are done here to remain relevant in the future. In these changing times your most critical assets are your people. Your workforce vote […]

RN#11 The trick of generating transformational growth with a small team

If you’re a (business) leader leading no more than a 20-member team And you’re angling for revenue only… You may be doing something wrong The probability of you reaching your revenue target could be as easy or difficult. Once you scale past the 20-member team things get exciting and dizzying. VERY MUCH higher value: What […]

RN#10 Furloughed? Ways to Get a New Job

I have experienced being asked to leave when it was not your fault. It’s life-threatening and unnerving to be asked to leave a job without being prepared I saw it with a former colleague more than a decade ago. She had 2 weeks to pack A month earlier she had won a global staff award […]

RN #008 Culture-Performance Connect- What Boards and CEOs need to know

CEOs and their Boards have a broader understanding of how culture leads to better performance. The question is do they have an in-depth hold of their own culture and how does that impact performance? Or do they know the impact of same if they poorly manage culture? When it comes to culture’s connection to performance […]

RN #007 Transformational change is gaining traction in the non-profit sector. Let’s support them

In the last two months, I have worked on a few papers and tasks and have abundantly seen how the non-profit sector has begun to repurpose its language around change. Words such as ‘systemic change’, ‘transformational change’, ‘systemic complexity’, ‘uncertainty’, and ‘pathways’, are finding resonance in the non-profit sectors to combat poverty, meet economic and […]

RN #006 When culture helps to manage risks

In my combined 5 years of experience serving on the global boards of ACMP and IAF value creation happens when culture is well-aligned to business strategy and it gets the full backing and support of top leadership with the aim to reduce business risk. And yet according to EY’s Global Board Risk Survey 27% of […]

RN #005 How are your board and management responding to unexpected market changes

As organizations face ongoing instability and disruptions increasing pressure has been mounted on leaders to be accountable and respond to these rapid changes. Traditionally, Boards and Top Teams are not primed on an ongoing basis to address unexpected market disruptions, and this is seen in how boards, management, and employees in most cases have a […]

RN #004 Culture capital: How culture drives financial performance

Professional service firms and consultants have long struggled to present a simple way of saying that when clients invest in cultural transformation initiatives it leads to direct increased financial performance. The truth is there are cultural proxies one can use to determine how an increased organizational culture is a fundamental driver of financial performance. Watch […]

RN #003 The impact of successful change on your bottom line

“Change” is a uncomfortable terrain for many business leaders and organisations. The uneasiness of change is often rooted in a feeling of being unable to make a successful transition. Yet, as we all know, change is part of life and work. If you’re reading this article, you’re probably a person who\’s already experienced the power […]