Vision, Rainbows and Pots of Gold
I gave a presentation today at a MDHub250meeting in Brighton at the Metropole.
I was given the topic of Operations, and the audience was primarily owners and CEOs of companies less than three yrs old. I found it interesting that within about five minutes of planning my talk (my slot was about forty five minutes) I began to question whether the concept of ‘operations’ in business-terms still exists.
I found myself continually bouncing around two or three areas in my thinking:
- Mission, Vision and Strategy
- Time management and value-adding
- Communication and engagement
Obviously, just a fleeting look at this blog makes it no surprise that these areas came up. However, my role as CEO of Madgex means that the team of fantastic people who work for the company are continually ‘doing’ the operations of the company and I work with the rest of the senior management team to deliver improvements to those operations.
And yet, it’s the three areas above that we most discuss in our 121s or coaching sessions. These areas that (rightly) take up so much management time and focus.
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