Padraig Enright's Page
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- What kind of role(s) do you usually fill?
- Consultant
- Areas of Expertise
- Change Management, Strategy, Sales Leadership, Employee Engagement & Culture, Customer Loyalty and Advocacy, Retail Banking, People Development, General Management, Business Coaching
- Where can we learn more about you or your company on the web? (examples are corporate websites or personal LinkedIn profiles)
- http://www.origin8.ie/
Padraig Enright's Blog
What's Happening Out There & How Is Your Business Responding?
Posted on November 15, 2013 at 6:30am 0 Comments 1 Like
The CEO of Rakuten Inc (largest ecommerce site in Japan) Hiroshi Mikitani, recently penned an article titled 'Passive Regression Could Kill Your Business' outlining his view on the value of the learning gained from making what he calls active mistakes. Active mistakes as opposed to passive mistakes!
His definition of a passive mistake is broadly one resulting from omission, caused by not taking action when one should. It reminded me of the Head in The…
ContinueThe Greatest Change in Education since the Printing Press
Posted on October 1, 2013 at 3:04pm 0 Comments 1 Like
Life long learning and self development are two hallmarks of truly great people. But isn't it difficult ot get time to learn, at least in the formal sense?
The corporate approach for decades has been to select it's best and brightest and dispatch them to the recognised business schools. The MBA was the passport to bigger and greater…
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Hi Padraig,
I am excited by the idea of measuring intangible value to create drivers to increase business value - 'what gets measured gets managed' to paraphrase Drucker. I am a professional accountant with a background in sales and marketing. As I operate my own business I have real world experience of management and entrepreneurship. This appears to me to be something I can offer my clients which is different than anything my firm has done in the past. I look forward to talking to you some time. You can get my contact details on linkedin.
Regards,
Pat