Research and practical tools for leading across distance.
Written for leaders running Asia Pacific from inside the region, and for the head offices they report to. Each piece is free. Leave your email address and it arrives in your inbox.
Before you replace your regional leader
Fifteen questions to answer before the search starts, so the next person does not fail for the same reasons as the last one.
Get the listThe patterns nobody outside the region sees
You sit at a narrow point between a head office that sets the strategy and a market that has to make it real. The defining work is holding both at once.
Get the regional briefThe structural cost on no one's scorecard
If your Asia Pacific margin keeps reading thinner than the business feels it is, the measurement is the likelier problem, not the operation.
Get the head office briefHead office sees the Asia Pacific region differently.
The two briefs draw on confidential conversations with regional and commercial leaders in companies of 50 to 1,000 people. They examine the structural problems that hold back growth, margins and execution, and what gets missed between head office and the region. Sector made little difference: the same problems came up from a factory in China to a data company in Singapore.
- PatternsTen patterns that recurred across the conversations.
- MeasurementWhy you are probably measuring your Asia Pacific region wrong.
- ComplianceRules built for one market and applied to all: a disadvantage if held rigidly, a real risk if held loosely, with the judgement left to one person.