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Andrew MacLennan

Strategy Execution Derailment

Yesterday, Carrillion plc went into liquidation with debts of at least £1.5 billion ($2 billion). The 43,000-person construction and support services company operates in the

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Aircraft
Andrew MacLennan

Ascent & Descent

I recently enjoyed flying First Class from London to Bangkok with a well known airline.  It was a treat for me as I don’t expect

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Paths diverging in a forest
Andrew MacLennan

Executive Dilemmas

Organisation leaders have endured a rough ride recently.  Barely a day passes when business chiefs are not accused of greed – the banking crisis seemingly

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Steve Jobs
Andrew MacLennan

Strategic Foresight

Unlike most bloggers, I haven’t yet mentioned Steve Jobs’s untimely death earlier this month, despite being a big fan of Apple’s products and having enormous

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Firefighter
Andrew MacLennan

Who Got Fired?

In June I wrote about problems with the NHS’s embattled patient care records programme – which has since been cancelled. We have’t had to wait

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Bamboo
Andrew MacLennan

The Progress Principle

Last month’s Harvard Business Review included an interesting article by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer, reporting the findings of a long study into motivation. Amabile

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Hospital waiting room
Andrew MacLennan

Patient Wait

The UK’s National Audit Office recently published an update on the delivery of patient care record systems in the country’s National Health Service (NHS).  This

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Gridlocked cars
Andrew MacLennan

Gridlocked

Is your organisation ‘gridlocked’ and unable to respond to the upturn? In my recent book I suggested a disarmingly simple idea, about how capacity, capability

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