The perfect proposition
How do you design new commercial ideas so that you can deliver to customers flawlessly, retain them year after year, and grow them continually over time?
Author Archives: Martyn Drake
The adaptable organisation
The ability for any large organisation to learn, adapt and respond to a rapidly changing environment, largely comes down to two things: how good are its hothouses, and how well can it propagate its limes.
The corporate opportunity
If we want to access the income, impact and influence we could gain from a new generation of corporate partnerships, we will need to meet business leaders where they are, and take the time to educate and lead them to where they need to be.
CEO Breakfast Sept 2021
Wednesday 22nd September 8am to 9:45am. With change as rapid, resources as tight, and the future as uncertain as it is today, what is the point of strategy? Join me and a small group of your peers, including my guest, Neil Heslop, CEO of the Charities Aid Foundation, to find some answers.
The collaboration prize
Collaboration isn’t easy. But it isn’t as hard as you might think, and it is more important than you might realise, because without collaboration, most charities can’t actually realise their visions.
Video: Conflict and Courage
Recorded in a live seminar from June 2021, watch Martyn and author and speaker, Marlene Chism, in an insightful discussion on how we reframe conflict and reshape the situations that create it, in order to achieve better, more productive outcomes.
Webinar: Strategies for a Changing World
13th July 2021 5pm-6pm. The strategy tools we have inherited were never designed for the context in which we are now trying to use them. Join me to explore how the art of strategy development needs to change.
Starting your next S curve
Which parts of your organisation are stuck on the plateau? Where has your growth gone flat, not because of lack of need, but because you don’t have the fuel or the people to push you onto the next stage of growth?
Aiming for excellence
To achieve genuinely ambitious goals requires more than just passion, hard work and good intentions. It requires excellence in specific areas, and at least a minimum level of professionalism in others.
Webinar: Conflict and Courage
8th June 2021 5pm-6pm. Conflict is one of the few hallmarks of all high performing teams. In fact, teams that avoid all conflict eschew all hope of excellence. Join me with author and speaker Marlene Chism, on turning conflict from a negative into a positive.