Episode 88 of the Business Bookshelf — Dr Nadya Zhexembayeva — Author of “The Chief Reinvention Officer Handbook” Have you heard of the title “Chief Reinvention Officer”? Nadya helps people & organizations turn change & disruptions into an opportunity — and a source of real competitive advantage — again and…

Welcome This month the theme for me has been Reinvention. It started out with me finding out about Dr Nadya Zhexembayeva, her website The Reinvention Officer and then me interviewing her on my podcast Business Bookshelf (to be aired next month). Nadya has created the title of “Chief Reinvention Officer” and…

How often do organisations need to reinvent themselves? Half a century ago the life expectancy of a firm in the Fortune 500 was around seventy-five years. Ten years ago this was reduced to 15 years and is even less today. The retail and restaurant industries have been particularly hard hit with them facing the Amazon juggernaut and now…

Can Amazon be blamed for the demise of dozens of retailers across the world? The retail apocalypse There is a retail apocalypse taking place at the moment. In 2019 alone US retailers announced 9,302 store closings, which is a 59% jump from 2018. The most prominent retailers effected by the retail apocalypse are: …

Is it possible for an existing company to transform into an Exponential Organisation? — Welcome to the final week of our three-week series looking at Exponential Organisations. …

Is there a formula for success? — What do the top companies today have in common? Can we learn these similarities and implement them in our companies? Welcome to week two of our three-week series looking at Exponential Organisations. Last week we looked at what is causing the rise of exponential organisations, this week we will discuss…

New companies that are 10X better, faster and cheaper — This week will be the start of a three week blog series. This week we will discuss the rise of the exponential organisations, in week 2 we will look at the attributes that make a company an Exponential Organisation and in the third week how your company can become one. …

Your first step to exponential growth — A lot has been happening in my life in the last month. I have recently joined an organisation called OpenExO which has over 1,500 independent consultants around the world. Our mission is to assist startups to become Unicorns and to help existing organisations to transform to becoming exponential organisations. OpenExO’s…

The John Maxwell Podcast — The fourth blog in the My Thoughts/Your Thoughts series is going to cover the latest John Maxwell podcast called “Candid Conversations: Do it now”. John Maxwell focuses on leadership and his books have sold more than 19 million copies. I have always enjoyed listening to his podcasts. This particular podcast’s…