Two Tales of Participative Strategy Stewarts Law: Past, Present, Future For the second year running Stewarts Law, the international litigation practice, invited John Smythe to design and facilitate their business strategy meeting attended by the top 50 or so lawyers. The meeting had to meet two objectives; provide robust solutions to deliver the near term [...]
Join research into the impact of technology/social media on relationships across the generations and the world Phoebe Lebrecht (Y gen), Carlo (M gen) and John Smythe (boomer) are undertaking mixed generation focus groups to explore the topic and present findings and analysis at the March Well Being convention in the UK and thereafter at other [...]
John argued that under command and control elites use internal communication to communicate what has been decided by the few to the many. In that sense film and video (and other traditional comms) is a cypher to get content over and understood. The problem is that the recipients are cast as spectators of others’ decisions [...]
Did you know that 90% plus enterprises around the world are family owned? Liz Clayton-Jones engagement partner at family firm Mars gave a tour de force performance at the 34th Engage for Change breakfast at the Groucho Club. Mars was formed in a kitchen in 1911. Today it has 78,000 people making confectionary. It was [...]
John Smythe in the Manager's Chair To Aston Villa footie ground’s swish directors hospitality suite to facilitate a high speed, dynamic engagement of 140 leaders at a major housing association to contribute the basis for a ten year vision. Using our Team Size Escalation process people work alone at first to respond to [...]
Look out for a C-Suite workshop facilitated by John Smythe in October with IORMA – International Omni Retail Markets Association with Barbara Walker (ex CBI) Many of us associate Big Data with understanding and influencing customers. It started there but we are learning that Big Data is and will provide leaders with the ability to [...]
At the base of the English South Downs lies Kingly Vale, famed for its Yew trees and at this time of year for carpets of Blue Bells. Here’s a shot of spring.
John Smythe’s insights from facilitating at C suite and board levels To historic Lainston House Hotel near Winchester where John Smythe recently facilitated a two day strategy session for a FTSE top 40 company with the main board,executive team and some Group executives;some 26 in total. They arrived from UK,Europe,USA,Africa and elseWhere.The client remains anonymous [...]
