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Mar 25, 2022

Resolving the Strategy & Culture Paradox. The Roger Martin Interview

For any business leader — or anyone with a LinkedIn feed — it is inevitable that they face a daily barrage of memes or comments that involve the most famous misattributed Peter Drucker quote in history. A quote that sets out a battle for business supremacy where Strategy falls victim…

Strategy

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Resolving the Strategy & Culture Paradox. The Roger Martin Interview
Resolving the Strategy & Culture Paradox. The Roger Martin Interview
Strategy

14 min read


Feb 13, 2022

Have you built a Winning Culture?

Winning has been on my mind a lot this week. Possibly because of the Winter Olympics that opened in Beijing this week. My late father was an Olympian (Tokyo 1964 for field hockey) so the Games always remind me of him. It’s also because Canada is a strong medal contender…

Culture Change

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Have you built a Winning Culture?
Have you built a Winning Culture?
Culture Change

5 min read


Dec 29, 2021

Your Corporate Values — Placeholder, Placebo or Propellant?

There’s a certain irony writing this post on Boxing Day 2021. After all, in organizational culture circles, the topic of corporate values is a perpetual punching bag for many. Honestly, any exercise that consumes as much Executive attention and energy and is so gleefully emblazoned on so many walls and…

Culture Change

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Your Corporate Values — Placeholder, Placebo or Propellant?
Your Corporate Values — Placeholder, Placebo or Propellant?
Culture Change

6 min read


Dec 17, 2021

Do We Need to Rethink Organizational Power?

I must’ve watched Ridley Scott’s movie “Gladiator” at least 30 times. Besides “Dead Poets Society”, “John Wick” and “Good Will Hunting” there are few movies I go back to with glee every time. That’s a conversation for a separate therapy session though. As I watched it again, some of the…

Leadership Development

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Do We Need to Rethink Organizational Power?
Do We Need to Rethink Organizational Power?
Leadership Development

5 min read


Oct 24, 2021

The Untapped Power of Informal Networks

The 1995 movie release of “Swingers” was a seminal moment for me and my group of Canadian friends. The swagger of Vince Vaughan, the bumbling moves of Jon Favreau, the Las Vegas setting, and the cute smile of Heather Graham, it was all just “so money baby” In one pivotal…

Culture Change

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The Untapped Power of Informal Networks
The Untapped Power of Informal Networks
Culture Change

4 min read


Oct 17, 2021

How Safe Is Your Strategy?

I can’t imagine October 3rd 2021 will be a day that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg will soon forget. That evening over 8 million people tuned into news program “60 Minutes” to hear former Facebook employee-turned-whistleblower Frances Haugen accuse the social media giant of “prioritizing profits over…

Culture Change

4 min read

How Safe Is Your Strategy?
How Safe Is Your Strategy?
Culture Change

4 min read


Sep 26, 2021

CULTURE & TRANSFORMATION: Championing the Catalytic Change at GSK Vaccines

The Healthcare sector has long been seen as a complex and multi-faceted labyrinth, where innovation and agility regularly battle government regulations and a dizzying market complexity. For those working in the sector, particularly during the pandemic, the need to increase the agility and adaptability of these organizations has never been…

Pharmaceuticals Industry

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CULTURE & TRANSFORMATION: Championing the Catalytic Change at GSK Vaccines
CULTURE & TRANSFORMATION: Championing the Catalytic Change at GSK Vaccines
Pharmaceuticals Industry

15 min read


Sep 3, 2021

The Business Impact of Culture Washing

If you’re an Executive or business leader, consider these numbers for a moment… 41 The percentage of people considering leaving their current employer according to Microsoft 31 and 45 According to Korn Ferry, the percent of employees who say they would quit their job without another one lined up, and…

Culture Change

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The Business Impact of Culture Washing
The Business Impact of Culture Washing
Culture Change

5 min read


Jan 2, 2021

A Leader’s Letter for 2021

As the son of a proud Scottish mother New Year is more about libations than lists but, in so many ways, 2020 has been a year of the new, the novel, the different and…errr…the unprecedented. So here is a set of New Year’s Resolutions. Not as a list, but in…

Leadership

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A Leader’s Letter for 2021
A Leader’s Letter for 2021
Leadership

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Aug 15, 2020

Why Digital Transformations Fail — The Tony Saldanha Interview

One of the most popular, and disconcerting, statistics about Digital Transformations pegs failure at around 70%. That means for the billions of dollars expended globally each year, you have a 1-in-3 chance of delivering most of the critical digital transformation requirements that your Executives, and the teeming hordes of business…

Digital Transformation

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Why Digital Transformations Fail — The Tony Saldanha Interview
Why Digital Transformations Fail — The Tony Saldanha Interview
Digital Transformation

17 min read

Hilton Barbour

Hilton Barbour

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Networker. Marketing Provocateur. Loves travelling - love my 2 daughters more. Perpetually curious.

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