Achilles isn’t a list of services. It’s a way of thinking.
I’m Paul Manning.
In 2020, after 13 years in global management consulting, I bought a notebook and started with a heading: The Transformation Game.
What followed was a list of the questions I would ask if I had the opportunity to sit with a business leader wanting to move their business — local, national or global.
If I had 10 minutes of your time, what would I ask you?
Not tell you. Ask you.
In the years since, my experience grew again inside a small, high-impact technology business delivering leading solutions to really big businesses.
Achilles brings together what I have learned over 30 years about getting things done in business.
The questions I wrote then are still the questions I come back to now.
What is going on?
What are you actually trying to achieve — and why is that important?
You no doubt have things working well. Start with them. Then, what’s the most important thing that isn’t?
Would it help if we worked on that?
If that wasn’t a problem anymore, what would you hear, see and feel differently in your business?
Let’s start there. Tell me why that matters.
And that is really where Achilles starts.
