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Daniel Rose is an business and management consultant who works with owners, board members, and executive officers to improve their business.
He works collaboratively with clients in a range of area, delivering premium service across organizational design, people performance, strategy and corporate performance.
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"I'll know it when I see it" doesn't cut it here. There's no way you can expect an employee to perform if you don't know what that performance looks like.
If one thing motivates staff, it’s action. The ability for staff to accomplish something challenging provokes and engages them more than almost anything else.
That’s the key to growing your business. New horizons bring new opportunities, and new opportunities are where the profits reside.
In order to grow, in both a financial and personal sense, you need to be doing new and more challenging work.
You need to let go. You should be dropping ten to fifteen percent of your client base every few years to allow for real, organic growth.
If you've taken the time to develop a working organisational structure, you shouldn't change it based solely on employee performance or ability.
Instead of measuring the pointless just because you can, focus on measuring the useful, even if it's difficult!
There is one question that needs to be asked. If senior managers don’t deal in operations, and they don’t deal in strategy, what do they deal in?
Sure, it requires collaboration with subordinate staff, but strategy isn’t a task to be delegated. Abdication doesn’t work here.
A business without a plan is a hobby.
Let your organisational values be shown off by the employees, don't relegate them to the wall of corporate propaganda.
It's easy to get caught up in today but, in reality, it's the long term that counts.
The ideal time to market your business isn't tomorrow, it's right now.
You can't just pay more and hope to attract exceptional staff. When you fossick for gold, you have to look through a lot of dirt.
Humans are the most effective and efficient place to store your corporate knowledge.
Organisational learning isn't a fancy type of technical training. It's a whole different ball game.
Whatever has happened in the past, the key is to learn from and build on those experiences.
It takes considerable time and preparation to develop managers, even at the front line level.
It's always better to make a slow greenfield investment than a bad acquisition.
It doesn’t matter how spectacular your product is, or how brilliantly you can innovate. If you don’t make it easy for the customer, they’ll go elsewhere.
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