Commonly, business leaders struggle with undefined roles and responsibilities, resulting in a lack of accountability. This often leads to inconsistent decision-making and unclear direction. Additionally, leadership development and succession planning tend to be neglected in favor of daily operational tasks. From our research here are 6 key themes the business leaders have identified to help address these.

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We have recently unveiled some insightful analysis from a comprehensive study of 75 medium-sized businesses (MSBs) in New Zealand. These businesses, defined by their staff numbers ranging from 20 to 150+ employees and annual revenues of $5m to $30m, play a pivotal role in the nation's economy. This blog is the first in a series of blogs we will release on our findings.

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We are constantly asked what we are seeing across the many businesses and many industries that we are supporting with Strategic Advice. We work closely alongside 10 strategic partners and also seek their insights. This is at the Board and Executive level for Strategy, Strategy Implementation and Executive Leader Development.

This video gives a snapshot of our and our partners, insights as of May 2024.
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At a presentation for the Canterbury Institute of Directors, I delved into the intriguing world surrounding "The Signals of Strategy Implementation." It was a deep dive into the visible and hidden hurdles that can stymie an organisation's strategic ambitions. The crux of the discussion? How Boards of Directors can spot these obstacles early and navigate around them, ensuring the company's strategic objectives are met whilst enabling the CEO & Management team to take action.
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In the ever-evolving landscape of medium-sized businesses, crafting a coherent and effective strategy can be a perplexing challenge. It often pays to back a central idea instead of spreading yourself too thin across various concepts.
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Small businesses form the backbone of economies worldwide, serving as catalysts for innovation, job creation, and community development. However, in today's rapidly evolving landscape, small businesses face a host of mega-trends that can either propel them to success or present significant challenges
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Creating strategic plans to win in your market is actually the easy bit! What we hear all too often, is that mid-level managers are left in the dark about the plan. This article will discuss how middle managers serve to play a critical role in medium-sized business success by communicating vision, values and strategy to their team members and ensuring that they are successfully implemented.
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No one sets out to be someone's bad leadership reference point, it just happens. So, how are you going to ensure you don't end up being a poor leadership story that is told through those below you? .
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Are you flexing your business leadership style to suit the situation? There are so many articles that try to position leadership versus management, it’s a leader versus a boss etc. However these ‘either or’ are traps for leaders which in all likelihood leave leaders bewildered and feeling that they are letting the side down. The truth is that leaders need to be able to draw on a spectrum of approaches and management styles to suit any given situation.
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In today's rapidly changing business landscape, effective board succession planning is more crucial than ever. It involves identifying, developing, and transitioning capable leaders to ensure continuity, innovation, and sustained success.
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Succession planning is an essential part of any business’s effective governance. It’s a process that helps ensure the continuity of leadership and the stability of an organisation, no matter what challenges it might face.
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A leadership philosophy is a set of core values, beliefs, and principles that guide and inform how you lead. It’s the foundation from which you make decisions, take actions, and develop your own unique style of leadership. How do you create one?
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In the face of a challenging business environment, many business owners feel a sense of uncertainty. It’s difficult for business leaders to make decisions that will ensure future profits and growth and retention of market share. Here are some tips on how you can stay competitive and thrive in a challenging market.
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Disruptive strategy, first introduced at Harvard Business School in the 1990s, is a concept that has had a significant impact on the business world. The idea behind disruptive strategy is that companies can achieve success by targeting and serving overlooked or underserved segments of the market, rather than competing directly with established players. 
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Succession planning is a crucial strategy for businesses and organisations to ensure future stability and continued success. Good succession planning can help protect your organisation against the risks of turnover, ensuring that it has access to the right talent, with the right skills at the right time. 
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Working remotely is becoming more and more popular among businesses that want to attract the best talent from across the world. How do you ensure you build a strong culture if all your employees are miles apart? How do you get the Leadership Team to be consistent remotely? Can you deliver a remote work culture?.
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Will 2023 be known for leaders as the year long battle for creating, and maintaining, momentum? Over the break, and since returning to the ‘desk’, I’ve been thinking about what challenges leaders and businesses could face in 2023. Fair to say, this list was long, exhaustive and lacked a sense of relevance if I’m honest.  So, I reframed my thinking.
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The challenges of rising inflation, low unemployment, the Reserve bank increasing the OCR and the flow to interest rates are increasing the ripples through many business owners and businesses. What will 2023 bring, and what type of recessionary environment might be looming?
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We see and hear it quite often: the call for a leader to show themselves. Unfortunately, we are seeing a lot of leaders choosing to ignore that call and not ‘getting’ the fact that they’re leaders. Instead, they hide behind their processes, with their head in the sand.
Do you look around for the hero to arrive, or will you step up?
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