“Lifting of the Veil”
We ran a privately organised session for a select group of CEOs under the Chatham House Rule*. When it was all over we asked, “What did you gain from this presentation / session?”
Here are their responses:
- A ‘lifting of the veil’ experience. I started to see how and why some of our business activities, operations, staff, clients and project outcomes happen.
- A new way of analysing organisations and the style of management required for different phases. Also the ‘strategic U turn’ approach was very interesting.
- Structure and method can get badly in the way of purpose. (Good strategic input at board meeting.)
- Very interesting insight to the concept of organisation life cycles and phases of development, plus the concept of u-turn strategic examination – all good stuff.
- Understanding of where my organisation is in its life cycle, elements that I can bring to move it to the next stage. Focus on what value proposition we offer.
- Lots of information on where we are as a company – tools on how to measure and achieve value, a better understanding of models used to measure and analyse present position – also reinforcement of where we are (my company). Well presented.
* Chatham House Rule: “When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed”.
