Kevan Hall on Speed Management

Kevan Hall is the founder of the consulting firm Global Integration.  Global Integration is a global consulting and training firm that delivers consulting & training to over 200 companies in 40 countries. Kevan speaks regularly at international conferences and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development.

During this podcast Kevan will review his new book “Speed Lead” and explain how leaders can simplify the way employees work together in complex companies and make the organization easier and cheaper to operate.

Kevan focuses his management theories on what he calls the "4Cs":

1. Cooperation
2. Communication
3. Control
4. Community

Throughout this interview Kevan will outline how a manager can identify the most serious efficiency and productivity problems in a workplace.  He then explains the most common causes of each and finally the practical solutions.

Kevan emphasis on the need for "selective decentralization" when identifying simpler ways to manage people, projects, and teams, especially in complex companies. He also stresses the importance of simplicity, stating that policies and processes should be "as simple as possible but no simpler."