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THE POWER OF RITUALS IN BUILDING A HIGH‐PERFORMANCE, SCALABLE ORGANIZATION
The author built two successful companies of his own, and has many years of experience as an organizational advisor.
Delegation Skills for Leaders: How to Delegate Using the Four Stages of Autonomy
Delegation skills are essential for building high-performing, agile teams. In this article, we’ll review a framework that you can train your leaders (and their team members) on, in order to develop a shared vision of how they can grow into higher stages of autonomy. Stage 1: Apprentice (“Learning How to Do Things”) No matter how smart or experienced your people are, there are always things they’ll need to learn almost from scratch — because they lack task-relevant experience.
How Friction-Free Organizations Hold Effective Meetings
The following is adapted from “Smooth Scaling: 20 Rituals to Build a Friction-Free Organization” by Rob Bier. Smooth Scaling addresses the most pervasive and least-understood fail point that threatens to kneecap even the best-laid scaling plan: organizational friction.
Dialogue is your company’s most important operating system
Let me ask you a philosophical question: What is your company made of? Is it made of money? Well, of course it took money to create the company, but if that’s all it took, then all companies would look identical. Is it made of people? Yes – but without them interacting and having conversations, all those people would just be standing around, not knowing what to do. Is it made of ideas? Most certainly – but how many people had great ideas that never led to anything?
Six things every founder should do to scale effectively in 2024
Founders of high-growth businesses have been forced to rethink their strategy over the past two years. Ever since the dramatic drop in valuations and the drying up of VC funding in 2022, many startups and scaleups have been forced to lay off staff, pull back on growth targets and batten down the hatches. In the era of cheap capital, it was all about growth at all costs.
Five Steps To (Much Better) Strategy Meetings
If you’re a CEO, you have a choice about how much to engage your senior executives on issues beyond the immediate scope of their functional roles. It’s a spectrum, but let’s explore the edges of the spectrum: the bilateral and the collective approach. The reason many CEOs stick with the bilateral approach is that they’re not the ones who experience the negative effects. Their meetings all feel sharp, focused and efficient.
From investor to tenant: The role of AI in transforming the real estate experience
A stubborn sector reliant on manual processes has contributed to Europe’s housing market disarray. However, the real estate industry is finally recognising the opportunities that powerful new technologies, like AI, Machine Learning (ML), and automation, bring to the entire industry, from investors all the way down to the tenants themselves.
Where does wellness sit within the ESG movement?
I recently read an interview in the Financial Times with Harry Hyman of Primary Health Properties, who was asked the question ‘what is your basic business philosophy?’ His response was ‘to run a business with recurring profits and a positive social impact.’ Temps de lecture : 5 minutes This is much of what the ESG movement is about; integrating a set of standards (transparency and accountability being two key ones) that ensure business is reducing any negative impact it might have on the...
Satellite Technology is transforming climate action
No one needs to be told that the climate crisis gets more serious by the day. Every year is hotter than the last one. Extreme weather events are becoming commonplace. Temps de lecture : 4 minutes New climate legislation aimed at quickening the green transition meets more and more resistance from businesses struggling to balance sustainability and its associated admin with the myriad demands of commercial life.
Scaling Is Hard: The 3 Most Common Mistakes - and How to Avoid Them
What are the common mistakes companies make when they start growing? How can you make sure they don't happen to yours? Join us and find out. About this Event In this spirited talk, Rob will lay out the most common reasons companies struggle to scale, offering a clear diagnosis of what goes wrong at different stages and why. He’ll then set out his proprietary 'Smooth Scaling' model that will give you key insights into how to scale your organisation without friction.
Struggling to Scale Your Startup? Try Taking a Step Back.
As organizations grow, they tend to get in their own way. Decision-making slows down. Conflicts emerge. Meetings grow longer, less focused and less productive. Silos develop. Managers spend more of their time handling people and organizational issues and less on business opportunities. In short, friction has begun to slow your company down. Why does this happen? To understand this, let’s look at what I call a Day Zero organization.
Three things every scaling CEO needs to do to be successful
As a CEO of a growing company, you’re accountable for everything that happens – and doesn’t happen – in your organization. Most CEOs take this commitment very seriously, and it serves them well. But the challenge is that many CEOs confuse this with believing they are responsible for everything. Even CEOs who have mastered the art of delegation (“getting stuff done”) find themselves overwhelmed by the job of “making sure stuff gets done.” Why?
When to upgrade your Building Management System
Building Management Rob Bier is CEO and Principal at T.M. Bier, a Master-level BMS EcoXpert™. Modern building management systems (BMS) enable superior integration between smart systems ̶ including operations technology (OT) and information technology (IT) systems. They also maintain specifications for heating, cooling, and ventilation, monitor independent power supplies, and support energy conservation and emergency response procedures.
The 5 key indicators that distinguish good building management from bad
Building Management Rob Bier is CEO/Principal at T.M. Bier, a Master-level BMS EcoXpert™. The Building Management Systems (BMS) market will surpass $44 billion (USD) this year, according to Future Market Insights, with growth driven by investment in smart cities and energy-efficient buildings. Sales are also expected to continue accelerating at a 7.8% CAGR through 2031. Historically, demand for building management systems has grown at a pace of 5.7% CAGR between 2016 and 2020.
For building owners, smart building benefits begin with the deployment of modern building management systems
Building Management Rob Bier is Principal at T.M. Bier, a Master-level BMS EcoXpert™. According to Fortune Business Insights™, the global smart building market is expected to grow to $109.5 billion USD by 2026, thanks in large part to the increasing adoption of the latest building management system (BMS) technologies. The commercial real estate marketplace has undergone disruptive changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic and building owners are currently looking for new ways to attract tenants.
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