Management Advice from the Greatest Minds

Management Advice from the Greatest Minds.

Stories and words of wisdom to inspire: Arcus surveyed 455 senior executives to learn more about how they run their businesses and how they keep people motivated.

This monthly management wisdom series of the Arcus View from the Top and Arcus Innovation Roadmap provides executives with ideas and insights on how they can improve their personal and organization’s performance.

The series covers a number of topics including the path to success, staying motivated, engaging employees, getting inspired and more. and more. Insights from leaders are also drawn from secondary research from leaders on ideas such as commitment and authenticity.

Managing Growth

  • First simplify a problem. Then ask yourself what are the possible scenarios to view the problem through different lenses. How would someone you admire approach the problem?
  • Small steps: One philosophy is to believe in continuous improvement – of self, departments, teams and organizations. There is always room to improve, to learn, to embrace change and inspire others. As one wise person said: little drops make a mighty ocean.
  • Relationships matter: Build not just your human capital but also invest in building relationships over time to become more productive and also engage with people and embrace technology.
  • Know unknowns: Success depends on a capacity to know what you don’t know– the known unknowns. It is difficult to control the unknown unknowns but it is certainly possible to invest time in identifying unknowns and learning more about them. A good dose of humility will increase the capacity to accept shortcomings.
  • Instincts matter: Operate on instinct when it is impossible to get all the information required to make a decisions. Sometimes, it is better to act before you have all the information, where time is of the essence, rather than wait because the train would have left the station by then.  
  • Work with people not around them when push back is experienced. Seek to be challenged and also challenge others. This is how people grow and learn from each other. A good sense of teamwork always leads to better outcomes.
  • Increase your awareness and your peripheral vision into areas that go well beyond daily priorities. It enriches people and organizations allowing for more creative thinking and discovery.
  • Seek agents of change who hold strong beliefs regarding a range of topics. This will allow teams to be galvanized to seek better pathways to solve problems.  
  • Learn to accept your uniqueness and not mitigate it to fit in. Sometimes a unique attribute can enrich people all around you way beyond what one would believe possible. Because in our differences is a rich tapestry that weaves us together for a greater good.
  • Resilience and faith are often undervalued by individuals and organizations. Often determination is all that stands between success and failure. A set of beliefs regarding an outcome can be an incredibly motivating factor in achieving success.

Services

Arcus offers clients a unique combination of fact-based industry knowledge and superior functional expertise. Our consultants have an average of over 22 years experience, twice the industry average. Find out more about our growth, change management and  operations services.

At Arcus we believe that a strategy is only as good as the results it delivers. Strategic outcomes are most predictable and effective when companies develop a portfolio of initiatives that are aligned with core competencies and aligned activities enable the company to offer a superior value proposition.

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Service coverage

The variety, breadth, and depth of the projects where Arcus can be a resource are made unique by each client’s specific needs. By providing a very small sample of projects we’ve completed, we can help you understand how and when to use our services. Visit the links below to find out more about a specific problem or opportunity you would like to address.

Below is a sample of the range of services that Arcus has provided to clients.

  • A survey of 2,350 consumers and 1,320 business leaders for feedback on sustainability trends
  • Architecting a multi-year change strategy for a Fortune 500 company
  • Mentoring a CEO on organizational change
  • Excellence transformation of a leading B2B services company
  • Creating a new sales deployment model for a healthcare company
  • Developing a position evaluation and compensation model for a professional medical association   
  • Improving services to customer segments by deepening their understanding of customer attitudes

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– Vice President, Nikon

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  • Influence your businesses’ future growth plans by understanding consumer behaviour

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Media Coverage

Arcus has been quoted extensively in media on a range of topics and can offer research studies, insights and ideas. Here are some examples from the Globe and Mail, CTV, Global TV and others.