| Issue 10, April 2003 |
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This is m-news, M Power’s monthly e-newsletter. We hope you enjoy reading it. M Power is a consultancy which empowers organisational and individual performance. m-news covers related themes – six quick snippets about business, organisational and individual effectiveness, communication and public relations.Communication empowers. Karen Morath, managing director, M Power The ‘quick six’ for April are
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1. 10 ways to reinvent your organisation
Here’s a crash course
from Keith Yamashita, cofounder and principal of Stone Yamashita
Partners, on the art and science (mostly art) of creating strategy and
unleashing change. 1. Outlaw PowerPoint. Write down your vision as a story – with a beginning, middle, and end – to clarify what must change first. 2. Don’t rely on words alone. Bring your thin king to life: Create an exhibit, use diagrams, prototype ideas. 3. Make strategy an everyday act. The creation and re-creation of strategy shouldn’t be a process that you undertake only when budgets are due. 4. Argue forcefully against your most dearly held hypotheses. Only then will you know if they stand up to scrutiny. 5. Make decisions, right or wrong. There’s nothing worse than waffling. 6. Reinforce your messages in everything you do. Use every ad, press release, store, package, and event to tell your story. 7. Embrace thine enemy. Make a list of the people who could legitimately stop your big idea from taking root. Befriend them. Convince them. Make it their responsibility to improve on your vision. 8. Don’t hold meetings longer than two hours. (Otherwise they’re workshops, which require more planning.) And don’t walk out of a meeting without assigning a name to every item that needs follow-up. 9. Startle people. Break out of your comfort zone, and do something unexpected. Run an offbeat ad. Institute casual-dress Tuesdays. 10. Don’t throw anything out. Don’t kill ideas that won’t work right now. Someday soon, the world might be ready for them.
Source – Polly LaBarre, www.fastcompany.com | |
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2. A quote we like
“The only thing worse than training your staff and losing them is not training them and keeping them.”
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3. Types of potential leaders |
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A Do you recognise any of the types?
The reluctant leader - has the skills to be an excellent manager but can't imagine him or herself succeeding in a leadership role.
The arrogant leader - is an ambitious self-marketer who rises quickly to the top but lacks the empathy and humility common in effective leaders.
The unknown leader - has the right blend of confidence and leadership skills but fails to develop relationships outside of a small circle of colleagues.
The workaholic - gets ahead by putting work above all else but often lacks the perspective and personality to inspire others.
Source - 'Personalise your management development', Natalie Shope Griffin, Harvard Business Review, March 2003
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In a world where words fight for attention, occasionally a phrase dazzles and reminds us what great writing is. A recent Australian Financial Review headline did that. “HIH: A cocktail of greed, folly and incompetence.” | |
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M Power regularly writes speeches and briefing papers for its clients. We have the expertise to write everything from keynote speeches to informal introductory remarks or to research position papers in any industry or subject area. Our clients benefit from our ability not only to find their voice but to ensure the delivery of the speech meets the agreed communication objectives.
We can also provide training from low key presentation advice through to comprehensive skills-based presentation workshops.
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| 6. This month's book review | |
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Meet me at the top! Sarina Russo, Crown Content, Melbourne 2002 This book is 210 pages long and such a ripping story that I literally did not put it down. How’s that for a recommendation? Sarina Russo is a Brisbane-based super-successful businesswoman whose story is amazing. Her motto is “it can be done” and the messages of the book are of the importance of self-belief, focus and investing time and money to improve yourself. It sounds hackneyed to say so, but this book really makes you feel that if she can, you can – do anything you want. To buy Meet me at the top! from Amazon click here.
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