Imagine if you had a work practice or technique available to you, that could assist your organisation in keeping up with the pace of change, while engaging people, fostering collaboration and innovation, and energising them about the future of their work? Such a technique exists. It’s called Gamestorming… Organisations that are still implementing change in the […]
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Today is a wake up call to Irish business to prioritise Innovation as its Number One commercial imperative for 2016. Those who don’t will simply get left behind. Organisations need to take a hard look at themselves to assess that their culture is innovation ready. At its best, Innovation should encourage a broader collaborative experience, leveraging market […]
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I was delighted to go to the U.S recently on this year’s EY Entrepreneur of the Year CEO Retreat. About 100 people (this year’s 24 EOY finalists, previous finalists of which I was one, the EY crew and media) all went to Boston for a week of learning and connecting. It was jam-packed with fantastic […]
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Who would be a banking CEO these days? Waking up to geopolitical uncertainty, cyber-attacks, a raft of new regulations or the menace of technological disruptors aiming to kill off the banking industry altogether. In the words of one banking CEO quoted in a recent PWC report, “the world needs banking but not banks.” […]
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We predict that Product Management will be the next sourcing ground for Ireland’s future CEO’s. In an era where assessing and delivering the needs of the customer is absolute, there’s a robust argument for saying that business talent working in Product Management will have all the key commercial skills needed to become economic drivers of […]
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EY Report Highlights Financial Benefits of Gender Diversity in Business on International Women’s Day Organisations with 30% female leaders could add up to 6 percentage points to their net margin Ireland ranks 28th out the top 56 countries surveyed for number of women on boards Building “Pipeline” of female talent necessary to get more women […]
Read More ›Advancement in digital technologies has disrupted everything, including leadership styles, according to Barry Libert, Jerry Wind and Megan Beck Fenley. Employees want more ownership rather than to follow instruction; customers want to participate in the marketing and development process; and leaders are finding that open and agile organizations are able to manoeuvre more effectively than […]
Read More ›Jim Barry, Managing Director of Barry Group, talks about his leadership style with Charley Stoney, Group MD of Alternatives Group. (This article first appeared in Shelflife Magazine in December 2014.) With the technological efficiency of a large organisation and yet the nimble mind set of a medium sized company, Jim Barry, MD of Barry Group, […]
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