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We are delighted to invite you to Jim Collins – Good To Great, a live virtual event on how to practically lead through the VUCA chaos we arein today. June 30, 2020.

Spend a day with us and learn how to deploy an AGILE mindset to scale up, fast. Milano, 5 July 2019

This practical hands-on masterclass will empower you to accelerate profitable growth using a time-tested and results-driven methodology. DELHI, March 1 2019. 9AM-5PM

Learn how you can accelerate profitable growth by deploying an agile scale up framework to execute faster, smarter 90-day goals. Mumbai, 20 November 2018.

SCALING UP BUSINESS GROWTH WORKSHOP. Discover how Italian Companies can Scale Up using the Rockefeller Habits 2.0. Join us in BOLOGNA, Friday July 13 2018 9AM-5PM!

This is an extract from my first THINK, PLAN, ACT! Book Club for Growth series on “The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, by...

By Verne Harnish and Ed Capaldi. Your team is probably fired up about grabbing more market share this year. But if you want to achieve that goal, it’s time to look at your operation through a fresh lens...

A long long time ago I leapt into the field of IT convinced that technology was the Holy Grail of competitive advantage. I am still a believer, but I know now what comes first is people...

Remember the days when your start-up team was crammed into a single office like clowns squeezed into a Volkswagen? Now you may have 150 (or 1,500) employees and find it infinitely more difficult to know..

Checklists are for losers, for wedding planners, for those types in IT or in Engineering and their machines. What use have I for a checklist? After all I know what I am doing. I am the expert, I am the...

Just like a great entrepreneur a great book excites you and forces you to raise your game. ‘Multipliers: HOW THE BEST LEADERS MAKE EVERYONE SMARTER’ a book authored by Liz Wiseman is such a book...

Yes I did write ‘vomit’ and I’ll explain in due course! But let us start with some blah blah blah. I know you have heard this a thousand times but it is worth repeating! Super-duper...

The Metrics that Matter should not make you look good or feel good, they should give you solid insights and help you take better, faster decisions.

How often do I hear a CEO remark ‘the CIO is not aligned to business needs’ or ‘the CIO is not supporting our business growth’, or an Auditor pokes holes in the CIOs reputation...

A story of complacency, procrastination, extinction plus a few bright stars accelerating hard into the future. Here’s the thing. I’m angry today. Angry at the sudden realization that it’s not businesses...

Change is hard, or so they say! Especially when ‘change’ comes dressed in a ‘positively spun’ lingo of higher management. Sometimes it is more straight to the point such...

Dear CEO, I have given your predicament a great deal of thought. Let it be first said that you are a brave man, after all, who wants to be a CEO in the 21st Century? Nothing is predictable and...

Is velocity a must have metric and, if so, why do so many scrum teams avoid it? It often amazes me how people are emotionally tied to concepts and methodologies, often arguing because...

This is only worthwhile reading for those of you that have accepted industrial aged strategizing is dead and existing tools cannot turn vision into action and strategy into sales in today's economic...