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Should you change your leadership style to achieve growth?
Leadership styles are just as unique as the people who employ them. Everybody knows that, but when it comes to leadership styles, it also varies according to the situation the leader is facing. Effective leadership does not mean one...
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Do you have the ‘right people on the bus’?
In his seminal book, Good to Great, Jim Collins discussed an inherent need for companies intent on becoming great to ensure that they had the ‘right people on the bus’. When Collins and his research team looked at the...
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Five tips to help create your agency’s vision
The suggestion of needing to create a vision for your business can, at first, appear far too touchy-feely for most senior agency executives to contemplate. You are working flat out on delivering client work and running the business, and...
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How do you attract the right clients?
In the early years of any agency there is understandably a strong emphasis placed on the need for customer acquisition. This is sensible given that clients are the financial lifeblood of agencies. However, within a few years those agencies...
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Agency growth: is it better to buy or to grow your own?
How to create an excellent company culture: 5 lessons from great companies It is perhaps surprising that many companies do not really understand the real meaning of “company culture.” A great company culture can transform an...
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Baidu is already profiting from AI
The headline from this news item in the Drum on 2 May (‘Baidu Q1 profit and income drop as it transitions to AI-first company’) sounds broadly like bad news, but the detail tells a different story. Q1 profits down by a...
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Planning for an exit: how to retain your talent
Organisational change, whether it is merger, acquisition, or any other form, is always a period of higher employee churn. Employees in the affected company start thinking about their career, especially about their future in the reshuffled company with new...