If you stay the same, how can you expect things to change?
One of the beauties of growing old is that things are put into perspective. There is a tendency to look back at what was done, particularly when selective memory is applied and we tend to remember the good stuff and forget the bad, unless it was really painful. Talking to my friend of many years, […]
Shall we burry our head in the Sand and pretend all is well
Waking up every morning to news readers telling us how the basic services the state is supposed to deliver are not working and are losing money. Then you hear about how corporations are driving production prices down via their competitive processes, leaving the producers exposes and with losses, particularly if anything is amended in the […]
Demystifying Value Creation by Simon Vumbaca, Principal and Founder ASV Private Office
As part of the daily work in a private office, we receive pitch decks. Plenty of them. Inevitably, in every investor’s pitch deck there is always a value creation slide. It’s usually a reference to a proprietary secret sauce and some assumptions, all coloured with incredibly optimistic numbers. But what does value creation actually mean? Investors and management teams have to define and deliver ways […]
The Right Person at the Right Time – in the Right Place.
The Right Person at the Right Time – in the Right Place. Perfect Storm or absolute luck? And why does it even matter? People often refers to the right person at the right time to do the right thing. This indicates the distant wish that things can be perfect for someone and their organisation. It […]
The Unlimited Power of Silence and Why It Matters
Have you ever been in a meeting where the person you are talking to remains silent and you inexplicably feel logorrhoeic? Have you ever been in a meeting where someone was talking so much that you stopped listening? Let’s be honest – this has happened to most of us. Silence can be unsettling at best. […]
Risks: How Far Should You Go?
Making decisions is the easiest thing. Making the right decision however less so! Decisions need to evaluate the risk they entail. Risk is an unpredictable that has a tendency to occur at the worst moment. Why is that ? How far shall one push it before the risk inevitably turns into a reality? When something […]
Fluid Strategy
I am often asked: what is Strategy? I used to use long and detailed explanations that covered all sorts of possible objections the listener had never even thought of, taking the more ‘detailed’ route of strategy of my own in anticipating their reactions. However, in recent years, the more experiences I had the more I […]
Ask Yourself These Three Powerful Questions – And Do Nothing
I was recently looking for some information to help a client that had grown so fast since first trading to see where things were being delayed in the implementation of his strategy. To any neutral observer it was clear: daily tasks micro-management was taking over the execution of the agreed strategy. The client was frustrated […]
Rational or Instinctive Decisions: Which Works Better?
The time to make a decision is the most nerve-wracking moment for any decision maker. The list of the “what ifs” is never-ending. Assuming the information we have is accurate, have we really covered all the angles that matter? The list goes on. The reality is that one is rarely in possession of 100% of […]
