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Six of The Best

Download a hand-picked selection of Stuart’s best six articles of the previous six months, all of which are focused on you accelerating the performance of your business. Comprising the best bits from Stuart’s newsletter, blog and published articles, Six Of The Best will give you new provocative ideas and practical tools to move your business forward.

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Developing winning strategies

• Don’t Be Balanced, Be Focused
• The New Rules Of Strategy
• Leading Successful Strategy Off-Sites
• Top 10 Strategy Pitfalls
• Go On, Pick A Card: Choosing Your Strategic Focus
• Is Your Strategy Lost In Translation?
• How To Run Effective Strategy Retreats
• Does your strategy help you take action?
• Do you really understand your company’s distinctive advantages?
• 5 ways to manage short-term/long-term tensions
• Is your eye to the telescope?
• Why CEO’s shouldn’t do strategy
• The perils of success
• Overcoming the perils of success
• Ground-level strategy
• Building a vision with cut-through
• Managing the four phases of strategy
• Is It Time To Redefine Your Market?

Growth and innovation

• 7 “Turbulence-Proof” Growth Opportunities For 2011
• Fresh Eyes: The #1 Way To Drive New Growth
• Don’t Ask Customers, Observe Them
• Why Now Is The Perfect Time To Invest In Growth
• Why Innovation Efforts Fail
• Be truly distinctive, not customer-led
• 5 ways to build a distinctive, ideas-led business
• What to do when you’re #3 in the market
• How to grow without groaking
• Bringing your growth fears into focus
• Creating a high-growth mindset
• Overcoming Your Internal Barriers To Growth

Performance improvement

• We’re Not Happy Till You’re Not Happy
• 7 Ways To Improve Your Company’s Speed And Agility
• Do You Pass The Simplicity Test?
• Reducing control to increase success
• 5 ways to go green and drive profits
• Is business booming? Then it’s time to start pruning
• Measures are the last thing that will drive your company’s performance
• 6 ways to get the 80/20 habit
• Don’t turn trials into tribulations
• Are you too scared to innovate?
• Focus your innovation on what won’t change
• Exploit successful rule-breaking
• McFocus x McDistinctiveness x McAgility = McSuccess

Delivering Successful Change

• What David Cameron Must Learn About Leading Change
• So, You Think You’re World Class?
• The power of milestones’ management
• Why Tesco Express Wasn’t
• Drive dissatisfaction to deliver successful change
• Get it wrong first time’ to drive real change
• Don’t invest in initiatives, invest in strategies
• How to count on successful strategy implementation
• Focus your agenda at the speed of light

Effective Management

• Become The Leader You Were Meant To Be
• Best Practice Lessons From Recent Projects
• 8 Best Practices To Plan Ahead In Turbulent Times
• Good To Great To Cliché
• How To Face Into Your Biggest Issues
• My Proposal To Increase Proactiveness
• Why executives try to do too much
• What Business Leaders Can Learn From Charles Darwin
• How to be more effective by making fewer decisions
• You can’t chase two hares
• Are you too clever to use explosives?
• Are you a Red Kite leader?