Newsletters: 2017

Goal setting – how and why it works
Issue 118 - December 2017
Also featuring:
- Do you have the right people on the bus?
- The chemistry of leadership
- Culture can destroy progress
- Establishing a sales capability – case study
- Lifestorming: Creating Meaning and Achievement in Your Career and Life – book review

Succession planning – worksheets
Issue 117 - November 2017
Also featuring:
- Four common leadership myths
- Five tips for keeping yourself employable in the future
- I am not a free person, I am a CEO …
- Pulling it all together – case study
- The Leading Brain: Powerful Science-Based Strategies for Achieving Peak Performance – book review

Business mentoring – a guide
Issue 116 – October 2017
Also featuring:
- Better team collaboration
- Portfolio careers
- What causes organisations to suffer crises?
- Doubling the profits and getting back in control – case study
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future – book review

Strategic alliances
Issue 115 – September 2017
Also featuring:
- Why good people leave
- Treat the human factor when a crisis occurs
- Does your business need a dress code policy?
- Product repositioning justifies price differential – case study
- The Code of Trust: An American Counterintelligence Expert’s Five Rules to Lead and Succeed – book review

Key performance indicators
Issue 114 – August 2017
Also featuring:
- Do you make mistakes in strategic planning?
- Three things good leaders need
- How non-executive directors are improving board performance
- A fresh approach helps a top 30 UK law firm increase PEP by 30% – case study
- The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone – book review

A resilient approach to Brexit
Issue 113 – July 2017
Also featuring:
- The six essential roles of a CEO
- A simple step to avoid strategic plan failures
- Preparing your company for sale
- Selling a technology solution to competitive clients demanding exclusivity – case study
- No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends – book review

15-point strategic planning checklist
Issue 112 – June 2017
Also featuring:
- How to reorganise your business successfully
- Shortcuts
- A resilient approach to Brexit
- Foreign direct investment into Poland by a British international company – case study
- Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money – book review

Guide to talent planning for the middle-market CEO
Issue 111 – May 2017
Also featuring:
- How to be a courageous leader in uncertain times
- Cultural change: the critical few
- Do emotionally intelligent leaders have more engaged staff?
- External control stops in-fighting in a family-run business – case study
- The Revenue Growth Habit: The Simple Art of Growing Your Business by 15% in 15 Minutes a Day – book review

Engaging the board on strategy
Issue 110 – April 2017
Also featuring:
- Are you giving positive feedback to your employees?
- Building a strategy control system
- Part 18 of the new insolvency rules: reporting and remuneration of office-holders
- Rapid and profitable growth for a young accountancy business – case study
- Strategy That Works: How Winning Companies Close the Strategy-to-Execution Gap – book review

Everything you need to know about project management – Part 5
Issue 109 – March 2017
Also featuring:
- Change leadership – essential but not simple
- Advance your strategic plan with an agile strategy process
- Branding: brilliant business tool or just jargon?
- “Breaking eggs” to help a global bank avoid regulatory fines – case study
- Continuous Branding: For Service-Based Organisations Ambitious to Grow – book review

Everything you need to know about project management – Part 4
Issue 108 – February 2017
Also featuring:
- Competitive advantage and USPs
- Why your strategic plan might fail to drive growth
- Why change needs gardeners not mechanics
- Company turnaround/restructure – case study
- Remix Strategy: The Three Laws of Business Combinations – book review

Everything you need to know about project management – Part 3
Issue 107 – January 2017
Also featuring:
- Building accountability among your employees
- Three keys to a strategic plan that gets results
- Voluntary arrangements and HM Revenue & Customs
- Management and project leadership training improves morale and attitudes to change – case study
- Thirteeners: Why Only 13 Percent of Companies Successfully Execute Their Strategy – and How Yours Can Be One of Them – book review