Alanhargreaves
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A weekly blog which focusses on specific issues for managing yourself, your team and your business
LATEST ARTICLES ( 172 )
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Shareholder Value Has Nothing to Do with the Share Market
Why a lot of executive packages are outrageous and stupid A loyal executive of 20 years reaches the rank of CFO. He’s smart, thorough and committed. He does a... Read more
Posted on 03 July 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING -
Make Sustainability Pay
Real changes don’t just sound good. Unsustainable green initiatives make no sense. To be embedded in a business model, they need to impact on two things: cost... Read more
Posted on 19 June 2012 BUSINESS, ECO-LIVING, ECONOMICS, ENVIRONMENT -
The Collaborative Cockpit
Good managers are neither ideologues nor cynics Before the acronym CRM was hijacked by Customer Relationship Management, it stood for Cockpit Resource... Read more
Posted on 12 June 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING -
Silent Solutions: How Keeping Quiet Can Help
Ever tried to manage a problem by not offering a solution? A lot of us automatically give advice. It’s not just a Mars and Venus thing. Men and women bot... Read more
Posted on 05 June 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING -
Staying Simple in Complex Times
Does rapid change call for big shifts in strategy? It’s all going quicker. Product cycles are shorter. So is time to market. And, so the logic goes,... Read more
Posted on 22 May 2012 BUSINESS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING -
How to Maintain Business Passion
Your great idea and the three stages of love You have a brilliant idea. Your boss will love it and you can already see your career growing on the back of it.... Read more
Posted on 15 May 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER, MARKETING & ADVERTISING -
Inquisition Versus Acquisition
The case for window shopping. Mergers and acquisitions are exciting stuff. This is the sexy end of the growth equation. It’s all about structures and... Read more
Posted on 08 May 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING -
Getting out at the Top
Nice work if you can get it. Sooner or later, entrepreneurs sell their business. It’s tradable just like any other asset. Ideally, they do so at the right... Read more
Posted on 01 May 2012 BUSINESS -
Instagram: The Entrepreneur's Dream
A Kodak moment for mobile apps. It’s a story for these times. Young geek collaborates with Silicon Valley network to build simple but popular product.... Read more
Posted on 24 April 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING -
Is the Leadership Thing Taking Us in the Right Direction?
Real change doesn’t start in the corner office. Want to disempower someone? Just tell them exactly what to do, how to do it, and when to do it. Don’... Read more
Posted on 17 April 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING -
Smart Men, Smarter Women
How diversity counters complexity. The real driver behind the diversity debate is not social justice for women or minorities; it’s the need for better... Read more
Posted on 10 April 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS -
Are You Growing Or Ageing?
Strategy and the business life cycle. As a young boy growing up in Sydney, my mother would take me on shopping trips to the city. We would visit at least two... Read more
Posted on 03 April 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING -
The Most Powerful Profit Lever
We need to talk about prices Price is the most powerful profit lever. The arithmetic is simple. If costs are $9 and you sell for $10, your profit margin is... Read more
Posted on 27 March 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING -
Handling Negative Situations
To feel better, feel worse. How hard is it to keep that sunny outlook going when you are surrounded by negative people? For some reason, we feel we should be... Read more
Posted on 19 March 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING -
Starting up in the Global Marketplace
Staying realistic when all those around you are billionaires. One statistic doing the rounds is this: to build an audience of 50 million, it took radio 38 years... Read more
Posted on 13 March 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING -
Authentic Authority [Recharge TV]
Management author and consultant, Alan Hargreaves, talks about leadership. True authority, he says, is based on personal authenticity. Read more
Posted on 27 February 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING -
The Power of Doubt
To make better decisions, embrace uncertainty In the 1990s, I was running a trading team in New York. When staff and clients arrived at our annual Christmas... Read more
Posted on 27 February 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING -
Buying into Yourself
Invest in a business, not in a dream How unfashionable is this statement? The sole mission of any business is to optimize value for shareholders. Read more
Posted on 21 February 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING -
Climbing the Wall of Worry
Time to get off? Because I spent over 35 years in financial markets, people often ask me about stock markets. What can I tell you? Here’s the truth: I have... Read more
Posted on 13 February 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING -
The Sustainable Opportunity [Recharge On Air]
This week, Alan talks about sustainability and business. If you don't see the player above, it's because you're using a non-Flash device(eg, iPhone or iPad). Yo... Read more
Posted on 13 February 2012 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING