Alanhargreaves

LATEST ARTICLES ( 172 )

• Trust and Leadership

  

  What’s good for you can be good for others People go better when they feel good. It’s something we all know. We can see it in ourselves and in others. Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2021 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• The View from the Air

  

  Feeling overwhelmed? Recently, ploughing through reams of leadership theories and models, I stood back from my messy whiteboard and wondered: does management... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2021 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• The Hybrid Opportunity

  

  Don't we already do this? The cliches around the future of work can be confronting. It’s all about hybrid employment, constant re-skilling and the death of... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2021 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• The Plus Side of the Pandemic

  

  Harnessing Urgency Just prior to Covid I came across this quote from Oliver Sachs on to the nature of a near-death experience: “There is an intense sense of... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2021 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• Stakeholders Vs Shareholders

  

  Has Covid Brought Them Closer? Shareholder Value is like a strategic grandparent, supported by old-fashioned common sense that if you don’t maintain or... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2021 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• Learning from the FAANGS

  

  Teachings of a Two-Tier Stockmarket The valuations attributed to the so-called FAANGs (FB, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google) are hard to explain in old... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• Virtually Coping

  

  You are not on your own Mention Zoom and reactions are mixed. Some immediately list grievances. A few actually like them. Others just roll their eyes. Online... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• What's Next?

  

  Simple questions for post-pandemic reality A business I work with is based in another country. We meet regularly for board meetings, audit reviews, advisory... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• Surviving Recessions

  

  Permanently Impaired, or Pit Stop It's almost 12 years since the world economy went backwards long enough to be labelled a global recession. On average,... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• Coronal Leadership

  

  The Covid Learning Curve. Global leaders have hardly emerged as role models in recent months. Most started with denial, moved on to panic and then shifted to... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• Letting People Go

  

  It’s your job Last year I wrote about ways to manage difficult people. This week a client called and said: “What if it didn’t work?” She didn’t want the... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2020 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• Old Rules for New Start Ups

  

  Love technology; focus on business Ninety years ago, my father grew up in a country town in relative poverty. He left school at age 12 and got a job in a genera... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• Handling Difficult People

  

  Focus on the problem, not the person Difficult employees are hard to deal with. Some have niggling issues for which no solution seems apparent. Management is... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• Shopping for Change

  

  Three simple questions My first home was the flat above my father’s store in a modest working class suburb. What was good about it? Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• Playing to Strengths

  

  Buy low; sell high Two things, very simple; makes sense. In 40 years in finance I rarely found people who were consistently good at both. The industry has a... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• Recessions Revisited

  

  What should you care about? Recessions are back in the news. Some say we are overdue for one. Should we worry? In the US, there have been 10 recessions since... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• Ode to the Disrupted

  

  Hard yards for incumbents and startups General Electric (GE) was dropped from the Dow Jones last year. After more than a century, the oldest member finally left... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• Horses for Courses

  

  The Principles of Outsourcing I once considered early retirement. We’d sold our core business. Children were approaching school’s end. My head was saying do... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• Feeling Apprehensive? That's Good.

  

  Certainly uncertain Ever been put off by the overconfident sales person who expresses complete certainty about everything? I don’t just mean car salesmen or rea... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2019 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• Keeping It Really Simple

  

  Sticking to the manager’s knitting Managers emerge from a variety of career paths — production, logistics, sales, marketing, or finance, sometimes admin. Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2018 BUSINESS, CAREER, ECONOMICS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING