The new ‘Good to Great’ 10 years on from Jim Collins publishing his business bestseller ‘Good to Great’, I was struck by the similarities of what Collins proposed as the defining characteristics of the ‘great’ companies, and what organisations such as Unilever, Siemens and Boots Alliance all stated in their keynote speeches on day 2 [...]

Whilst at the Garter conference I was delighted to hear that the main points being raised again and again were completely in line with what we recommend to our clients and help them implement; Develop a growth mindset – make the ‘conscious choice’ to improve and to be great. The right people are your competitive [...]

A couple of weeks ago saw the return of the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference, the second event they have run in London since they acquired AMR Research. I was privileged to be able to attend this as a guest of one of the sponsors. Personal thoughts Given the fact that I attend at least [...]

Great article on the change of mindset and behaviours in the new generation of people entering the labour market in the current edition of the European Business Review called;   ‘Managing Digital Natives – Opportunity or Challenge’ by Jonsen, Martin and Weg. Research in the US on narcissism has shown that there is an alarming increase [...]

Back in 2004, a famous, and somewhat confrontational, Harvard Business Review article was published by Nicholas G Carr, called ‘Does IT Matter?’ In this, he suggested that organisations are wrong to continue to make large scale investments in software like SAP, as the availability of this software has resulted in it becoming ubiquitous, something that [...]

Picked up a copy of the London Evening Standard on the tube yesterday (15th Sept 2011) and on page 8 was an article entitled ‘Dixon of Dock Green is my role model – police workers are not social workers’.  Intrigued I read on, and found that the article was based around an interview with the [...]

“It is not a question of how well each process works; the question is how well they all work together.” Lloyd Dobens & Clare Crawford-Mason I’m Sean Culey, CEO of SEVEN – a strategic thinker and relentless reader. At SEVEN, we are passionate about our joined-up approach which we believe leads to EXCEPTIONAL RESULTS (see [...]