The language of leadership is often plain and monotone. Used to explain slides and with a screen behind, leadership language […]
Whether in society or inside the organization, we have plenty of ‘theories of change’ surprisingly unchallenged. Can we please look […]
Over the years, I have had lots of conversations about ‘corporate culture’ and in particular ‘what to measure’. I must […]
Grandiose plans get sabotaged by small things. Many years ago, I was involved in what was going to be a […]
The new, emerging organizations, many people would agree, are more collaborative, more leadership-distributed, less top-down, with more levels of empowerment […]
The ‘expectations muddle’ of empowerment has different shapes and flavours: I expect you to do something but you don’t think […]
There must be a better way than having 200 consultants landing in my company and doing the stuff for me, […]
Whilst the holidays roll on, here is a leadership theme to consider Picture this organization. Closed culture, culture of secrecy, […]
Good Morning! The following article extends on our recent series on leadership this week. In the book by Gary Hamel […]
Good Morning! Here is the last of our series of three on Leadership this week. Recently, I keep finding myself […]
Morning to you. Here is my second post in a series of three on Leadership: Don’t define leadership for me. […]
We praise people because of their ‘clarity of mind’. We say, ‘she is a good manager, she knows what she […]
Our faith in communication is enormous. Why? Perhaps because we know well the problems associated with the lack of communication. […]
Years ago I was talking to a client, a Senior VP in the company, about a project that had to […]
Often you see people in organizations disillusioned with changes, considering themselves survivors of the yet another reorg, getting on with […]
The best swordsman in the world doesn’t need to fear the second best swordsman in the world; no, the person […]
Serious behavioural change? Start with micro-behaviours, then walk backwards to values, never the other way around. And bring peer-to-peer or […]
Forget work-life balance. It was a good concept that did a lot of good but has now retired. It cannot […]
It’s 2019 – I wanted to revisit this from 2018 – are corporations developing, evolving, transforming, adapting….? And old sticker […]
A simple exercise that leaders can do, either on their own with paper and pen, or with their management team, […]
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