55. Mastering chaotic markets with advanced management techniques

Have you considered how enhanced leadership techniques can enable more agile market responses? Or how your team could manage uncertainty through innovative management models?

In this episode you'll hear:

• Further exploration of leadership roles in Beyond Budgeting
• Strategies for fostering organizational adaptability
• Techniques for sustaining business performance in unpredictable markets
• Methods to align corporate strategies with real-time market conditions

This session offers practical strategies to help your team stay ahead in today’s dynamic markets. Curious about how to implement these adaptive management techniques? Press play and shift your strategic approach from reactive to proactive!

About Steve Morlidge

Steve Morlidge has 30 years of practical experience in designing and running performance management systems in Unilever, including three years as the lead of a global change project. He is a former chairman of the European Beyond Budgeting Round Table and now works as a management thinker, writer and speaker, drawing on his years of experience at the leading edge of performance management thought and practice. 

Steve Morlidge published Future Ready: How to Master Business Forecasting, John Wiley, 2010, ‘The Little Book of Beyond Budgeting’, ‘The Little Book of Operational Forecasting’, ‘Present Sense’ in 2017, 2018 and 2020 respectively. ‘Zen and the Art of Organising Work: The Hidden Anatomy of Effective Organisations…Using Systems Thinking to Unlock Nature’s Secrets’ was published in April 2021 and 2023 saw the publication of ‘Cost Matters’ and most recently he helped author ‘The Viable Map Workbook’ which sets out a practical methodology to help people put the principles of Beyond Budgeting to work in organisations. 

He is on the editorial board of Foresight, a forecasting practitioner’s journal published by the International Institute of Forecasting to which he regularly contributes. He is also a cofounder of CatchBull, a supplier of forecasting performance management software and sits on the advisory board of the Beyond Budgeting Institute. 

Steve completed his BA at Durham University and is a qualified management accountant (CIMA). He has a PhD from Hull Business School studying the application of systems concepts to the design of complex organizations and is a visiting fellow at Cranfield University and visiting Professor at BPP University. 

Outside work Steve has three children and is currently a proud grandfather times three. But he has never been able to sustain interest in anything long enough to call it a hobby which he likes to think is a sign of a restless enquiring mind…although his wife has a different interpretation. 

Links 

Full show notes: Unicorny.co.uk  

LinkedIn: Dr Steve Morlidge | Dom Hawes  

Website: Satori Partners

Book: The little Book of Beyond Budgeting by Steve Morlidge, use code UNICORNY25 for 25% off!

Sponsor: Selbey Anderson  

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