Stephen Archer is a speaker with great charisma. By using illustrations and personal experiences and not being afraid to share his own point of view of the current situation and who is to blame for it, he engages the whole audience, at the same time helping us all to understand the credit crunch a little better.
— Warwick Business School
Greece is a word that will forever symbolise democracy, advanced culture, science and philosophy. Sadly to this lexicon we can add economic disasters. Already ‘doing a Greece’ is highly charged epithet. I regret that I have had to write so much on Greece and the Eurozone crisis but it is the biggest economic and political…
The idea that leadership by default be a centrist notion is already widely challenged. Command and control is seen to be less effective in the light of new industry management style and new thinking. Managers should for sure be coaches and influencers – they need to be team guides, not team controllers. But where is…
On the face of it, the ECB as lender of last resort has staved off a Eurozone disaster. It did so by issuing a staggering 1 Trillion Euros credit (for three years at almost no interest) not to Greece but to the banks of Europe whose balance sheets were not too healthy – or would…
Not the usual blog but so many people are asking me about this topic… Ignore all accepted wisdoms and assumptions about you business, the market , competitors and customers. Dig into service levels of your business and add 25% to the quality and standards given Be your own customer – ‘mystery shop’ yourself to understand…
Every pundit and futurologist I have met or heard has said that 2012 is the hardest year to call. I agree and that’s my let out when this is reviewed in 12 months time. So here goes: UK: growth will return after a technical recession in the first half of the year. The UK economy…
A look at the map of Europe in 1850, 1910, 1938, 1960 today. Europe in quite short time periods has gone though enormous change. In the past 40 years politicians and technocrats (many un-elected) have attempted to manipulate the future EU order through political ideals and economic levers. Now these politicians are faced with a consequent…
What has emerged over the past year with great clarity is that there are two forms of confidence governing business leadership behaviour – external and internal. Usually, it is external confidence that is referenced – where leadership takes a view on the state of the business and economic environment – including the apparent or perceived…
The most extraordinary thing about the Eurozone crisis today is not the scale of the problem but the apparent impotence of EU political and financial leaders to do enough about it. How can this be, is it that hard? The reality is that we have something of a ‘perfect storm’. The sovereign debt situation has…