Author Archives: Paul Coles

Avoid these management traps

Industry Week recently posted an article about some of the common traps that leaders fall into.  This inspired us to write our take on this topic – adding more depth to some of the issues raised, plus a few others …

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Tips for setting goals and strategic priorities

Beware of “Group Think” People in the same team (sometimes even in an entire industry) can tend to all think alike.  This is a trap to beware of when setting strategy and forecasting goals.  Groups can tend to be over-confident …

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The benefits of Key Performance Indicators

Very few companies are good at setting and tracking Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) – the small handful of predictive measures that will ultimately drive goal achievement.

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The 10 Truths about leadership

This article is derived from the book “The Truth About Leadership” – here is a great summary.

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Paul Coles – RESULTS.com NZ

Paul Coles is Partner & Head of Business Development at RESULTS.com NZ.

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Won’t get fooled again – Part 1

Five of the most harmful business traps and how to avoid each one of them.

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