As they say, the only constant is change. This year change has been ongoing at break neck speed. The truth is, that as things are developing fast, the archetype of the omnipotent CEO — the lone commander at top of the corporate pyramid — is increasingly becoming a relic of 20th century management thinking. There …
Author: Silvan Mifsud
Practical Leadership
First of all I wanted to thank all of those that contacted me to congratulate me or discuss points raised in my last Blog Post article on Family Businesses. I appreciate this feedback immensely. Today I wanted to highlight what I believe is a very topical issue - Practical Leadership. As you all know, leaders …
A Heartfelt Appeal to Family Businesses
As I said in the past, I have a big soft spot for Family Businesses. However, with the crisis brought about by the pandemic, there are various serious issues that have surfaced that where likely swept under the carpet in more buoyant times. I normally refer to these as skeletons in the cupboard. Such skeletons …
Strategies for an effective re-organisation during a Crisis
In my role as Business Consultant, I can think of a great number of companies that where or are being forced to different levels of re-organisational efforts at an accelerated pace, in response to the crisis brought about by the pandemic. When such a re-organisation is happening it is a very delicate period and all …
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How to stop Micromanaging
On the 27th August I posted an article entitled "The Micromanager". In a space of just over 1 week, it became the article mostly read from all the other articles I have ever posted on this Business Insights Blog. Many have contacted me and asked me to provide more detailed insight as to how to …
Back to School: Yes or No?
As you know, I run a Business Insights Blog and hence you might be asking, what does this topic have to do with Business? Believe me it does. What happens with our children and whether they will return to school or not, will have an impact on how thousands of workers, employees, managers and business …
Remain Rational
In my role of business consultant I often find myself preaching to clients to remain rational and not lose their heads. It is only natural that when we feel such heightened uncertainty, our decision-making processes can break down. We may become paralysed and afraid to act, or we may act on the basis of bias, …
Planning & Budgeting in all this Chaos
I first of all want to thank all those persons that contacted me to comment and discuss the previous Blog Article on Micromanagers. From all the feedback we received we seems to have a 2nd pandemic in Malta, besides COVID-19, which is related to the micromanagement virus. This week I took part in a Webinar …
The Micromanager
I seem to meet micromanagers all the time. I came to the conclusion that in Malta since the territory is small, everyone is dead set to defend his or her turf and hence feel the need to keep full control on everything. The reality is that no one likes to be micromanaged. It’s frustrating, demoralising …
Mindset
I have personal & virtual meetings or calls with business owners or business leaders all the time. It is true that these are extraordinarily difficult times, however I cannot help noticing the difference in mindset that different business leaders have when dealing with similar challenges. There are those who retract, spreading doom & gloom wherever …
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