Despite living in the UK for the past few years, Tony Botsman is unmistakably an Aussie! Tony grew up on the outskirts of Melbourne Australia, graduated from an Agricultural College and spent some formative management years in Papua New Guinea where an entrepreneurial spirit took him shooting crocodiles (when a local village came under threat from increasing numbers), hiring out tug boats to logging companies and holding down a day job or two in the meantime. Return to Oz and an MBA meant a move to corporate advisory work and the birth of Professional Resource Group (PRG) a boutique planning consultancy which attracted input rom some 'Global Best Thinking' and went on to deliver some great results from sectors as diverse as banking and bio science. Tony is currently re launching PRG in Europe and the US as part of a wider project called 'Conundrum' a business solutions initiative which is actively seeking collaborators in all global growth centers.
Of all the hundreds of quotes representing wisdom from the past and vision for the future there is just one that best aligns with what I have to offer from my years of helping plan successful enterprise.
The quote comes from Christie Hefner, at face value it is easy to accept, to install in a business environment it is a little more challenging!
"Managing the status quo is riskier than change" My own 'take' on this simple but powerful proposition is that in nature, in science, in life and in any form of business or enterprise the notion of a status quo is an illusion! The planning process evolved with colleagues and clients is, accordingly, based on change as a certainty and focused on a process to manage change with precision.
In the next few weeks I will be providing the framework of a planning process that has delivered some good, and some outstanding results in a wide diversity of business environments. What I do not have to offer are blinding insights or breakthrough revelations, what I do have is a detailed process that will bring users to understand why "Plans are nothing and planning is everything"and how it is possible to manage change with a process that works every day, every week and every month not just at the annual datafest which produces a document that is out of date before the ink is dry and often resented in the same time frame.
One of the foundations of the process I hope to show you is wide collaboration; I look forward to using the same approach with people like you who are committed to growth. I also hope to direct you to some of the 'best ever' business books that provide another foundation for a challenging but highly rewarding planning process.
Tony Botsman, DDA, MBA, Professional Resource Group, 100 The Homend, Ledbury HR8 1BZ UK
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