The approach is supported by Peter’s own values of:
- Consideration
- Passion
- Integrity
- Caring about people
- Empathy
- Approachability
- Quality
- Respect for the past but focusing on the future
and a number of personal business philosophies that he has learnt and honed during his career:
- Enthusiasm is 95% of success
- Everything else being equal, people will deal with those that they can relate to
- Surround yourself with people better than yourself
- The key to managing people is getting them to tell you what to do, the skill is influencing them to tell you what you want to hear
- Be rigorous with standards and gracious with people
- Embrace change, it is inevitable
- Choice x Execution = Strategy
- Acceptance x Change = Achievement
- Life has to be fun
He believes in simplicity of thinking coupled with effective communication, rigour in structure and process to ensure decision making:
– Has clarity
– Is easily articulated, assimilated and adopted by stakeholders
– Is performance driven, which can be easily measured
– Is supported by fair and if necessary hard action
Above all he believes being able to harness people’s thinking, innovation, motivation and engender their support of a clear vision is key to success of all business strategies