The Critical Thinker Issue #4 - Make Your Meetings Count

Love them or hate them, meetings are an essential part of corporate and social life. Meetings are when important issues are debated and decisions made. It's at meetings when the process of winning or losing begins. Sadly, a lot of meetings lack the focus, direction and effectiveness they require.

Why is this the case? What is it that we, as meeting organizers and participants, have not been doing that has contributed to this rather sorry state of affairs?

Fortunately, basic common sense, and good critical thinking, can be applied to dramatically enhance the effectiveness of your meetings.

To learn more, read this week’s The Critical Thinker article on ‘meetings’.

To aid the quality of day-to-day decision-making in your organization, learn more about our Situation Management framework and processes at DPI Asia's website.

The Strategic Thinker Issue #3 : Supremacy Is Not A Dirty Word

This is the period when most companies have their annual “retreat”. The worst economic crisis in 70 years may have put paid to the desire to go away to somewhere secluded and scintillating. It does not change the need, however, to come up back with that tangible evidence of work put in – variously called the “strategic plan”, the “new strategy”, the “work plan”, the “new vision-mission statement”.

Whatever it may be called, many of these are modifications or extrapolations of last year’s output. They are “adequate” to see us through another year. It is seldom, if ever, a re-think of what is needed to win in the ever-changing landscape that confronts a business these days. Strategy to us is not about “adequacy”, it is about SUPREMACY . . . And there is a process of thinking to get you well on the road to achieving it.

Read this week’s article, ‘Supremacy is not a Dirty Word’.

To learn more about our process, visit the Strategic Thinking Process section of DPI Asia's website.