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Happy New Year. Is the start of 2025, now the time to rethink how you visualise, prioritise, drive, and visualise the execution of your company strategy? #CEO #strategy #CFO #results Howwe ANZ Pty Ltd Howwe Technologies

Gary Hamel, today at WOBI Sydney on leading and purpose, talked about being ‘impactful’ and to take accountability for the outcomes and ‘not the process’. He encourages to ‘think like an activist’ as leading is not an administrative role. If you find roadblocks, try and find solutions based on evidentiary data. Compete to have impact with your peers but not to get ahead’. He is all about individuals in work, regardless of role or ‘title’ to have a self-awareness or awareness in the team of how much value they add. He believes in evaluation by peers and that transparency is a better way of developing optimal outcomes and with questioning each other he says as 'adults' i.e. peer-to-peer regardless of your level. He wants your own personal behaviour to be ‘debureaurcratised’ as we human beings are creative. It is the organisations that often stifle this creativity and innovation which leads to demotivated employees and companies that do not perform. I questioned him at lunch as he talked so much about ‘bottom-up’ micro-enterprises driving, but he said 'strategy isn't dead' as he has a “Northstar concept” which of course sets the direction. I think what Gary is encouraging is simply lean, fast decision-making collaborative companies rather than bloated, slow, siloed companies with a dictatorial leadership style. The description he gives seems very aligned with the Howwe ANZ Pty Ltd way of working combining a platform and a process. He wants to move from micromanaging to enabling the organisations. This is the second time I have seen Gary, and he retains his enthusiasm for the subject and passion for improving people and companies. #strategy #leading #accountability #WBFSYD

Ross McEwan calls for Boards to 'push back and simplify' in this month's Australian Institute of Company Directors Company Director magazine. He offers his insight into how boards should lean into strategy and execution by breaking things into 'what's essential'. His messages of 'consistency counts' and 'remember why you are there' (to serve shareholders) resonate. In his article he notes the plethora of items that the board is involved in, not just the challenge of running and growing the business, but also ESG, compliance, regulatory reporting, modern slavery and the 'cumulative impact on board effectiveness'. In my view if businesses are trying to drive and control execution without a strategy platform they will underperform, as it is too hard to focus on the whirlwind of issues these days, and the business' Most Important Goals and strategic initiatives, and there are too many distractions to properly focus on 'where do we make our money' as McEwan puts it. Execution is hard, but it's harder without a robust, modern methodology and digital platform. #strategyexecution #CEO #Board #leading Howwe ANZ Pty Ltd Howwe Technologies

It is important for the long-term value of the business that the ‘here and now’ imperative of the latest technology transformation does not override the long-term strategic imperatives of the business. The two must co-exist. The technology pathway must support the strategic direction. Howwe.io is a highly recommended platform to all business leaders which can form part of any strategic and digital transformation. Why would your strategy’s execution be left outside of your digital revolution if it can help transform your business’ acceleration and growth? #CEO #digitaltransformation #transformation #strategy Howwe Technologies Howwe ANZ Pty Ltd

I thought I'd explore the important area of OKRs and KPIs and how strategic transformation is changing, as these measurement systems evolve with the modern CEOs' desire to engage their entire business in a more proactive and forward-looking way towards their vision and goals. And why a business-wide digital system for execution is essential for modern leaders that are serious about efficient on-time goal achievement.  #leadership #OKR #KPI #CEO Howwe ANZ Pty Ltd Howwe Technologies