"The time you save in not making changes or taking risks can be used to perfect your current practices. Your employees will be grateful to you for letting them know exactly where they stand, and will reward you by being unimaginative, uninspired and unhappy."

Donald Whitman

The Stopgap Group
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Brain Food

To balance things out, we hope to feature articles, papers, thought and opinion that will help to prevent the decline of the brain cells and expand that overworked grey matter. Just a little.

Listed Below are a selection of articles that we have come across already and would like to share with you. We will publish others as we find them and would welcome suggestions from you regarding new articles or papers that you deem worthy of inclusion.

Blue Ocean Strategy
by W Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne

Competing in overcrowded industries is no way to sustain high performance. The real opportunity is to create blue oceans of uncontested market space.
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Aligning the Corporate Stars
by Mary Jo Hatch and Majken Shultz

Companies are increasingly seeing the benefit of a corporate branding strategy. But to get the most out of such an approach, three essential elements must be aligned: vision, Culture and Image. Are yours?
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The Quest for Resilience
by Gary Hamel

The world is becoming more turbulent faster than organisations are becoming more resilient. As a result, they’re struggling to keep up, stumbling on and ignoring the signs that their company is going from ripe to rotten. But this needn’t be the case, says professor Gary Hamel. By embracing revolution, renewal and resilience, organisations can go from success to success, instead of success to failure.
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Lets Hear It For B Players
by Thomas J. DeLong and Vineeta Vijayaraghaven

Star performers getting all your attention? Its your best supporting actors who make your company shine.
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HR as a Source of Shareholder Value
by Becker, Huselid et al

Increasing pressure on organisations to deliver short-term shareholder value is a very real trend affecting the human resources function. How can HR professionals positively and proactively impact the bottom line? Becker, Huselid et al tackle this very question in what is perhaps one of the most convincing cases for strategic HRM.
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