True stories,told without names.

1. The page before the namesA listed technology company needed a new chief executive in the middle of a strategic shift. Before anyone talked about candidates, we asked the Board a harder question.4 min read
2. Whose company is it now?A global consumer goods company bought one of its major competitors and had to become one organisation while changing shape at the same time. We worked with the CEO and CHRO on the people side.4 min read
3. What the numbers didn't sayA global technology group was buying companies across three continents. The finances had been checked. We looked at the people, the leaders and the cultures, and left behind a playbook the group used again.4 min read
4. Words on a wallNew leaders at a listed life sciences company had a new strategy and needed a culture that would carry it. The values that came out of it were shaped by far more people than the top team.4 min read
5. The team that was already thereA new executive was joining an established leadership team. Most of the attention goes to the newcomer. This story is about the people who were already in the room.4 min read
6. When you're already winningA leadership team in a multi-billion-dollar company was delivering strong results. Its leader could see the market changing, and decided to ask the hard questions while things were still going well.5 min read
7. A different worldA new CEO and CFO joined the same business at the same time, and both quickly grew frustrated and confused. Neither was wrong. They were working from maps drawn somewhere else.5 min read
8. The hours that matteredAn African consulting firm advising clients in a large, complex and high-risk industry was losing too much of its consultants' time to one specific kind of work. We built Field Advisors to carry it.4 min read

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