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Category: Leadership

How are you focusing your time?

Over the past few weeks, the word ‘Zoom’ has slipped effortlessly into our vocabulary. We are now ‘on a Zoom’; been ‘invited to Zoom’; multiple ...

Leadership, Organisational Change

Where are you investing your energy?

Where we invest our energy is always something we need to pay attention to. More so in this current time of great uncertainty and disruption. ...

Leadership

Beat the Bug!

It looks like we are entering a season of huge uncertainty. There is increasing anxiety concerning how Covid-19 will impact us, our families, friends, neighbours and ...

Leadership

Collaboration – a game of snakes and ladders?

One of the strangest pieces of research we have come across was published in the Harvard Business Review: ‘Adults behave better when Teddy bears are ...

Leadership

Unleash your leader – A Book Review

Don’t be put off by the somewhat adolescent title of this gem of a book. Unleash your leader contains some essential truths every leader needs ...

Leadership

Being fearless

This is the headline statement of an excellent new book called The Fearless Organisation by Amy Edmondson a Professor at Harvard Business School. ...

Leadership, Unconscious Bias

Secrets to success?

n a 3-minute TED talk, analyst Richard St John distils 500 interviews with successful people into what he calls ‘8 secrets of success’. Click here to listen. ...

Leadership

The importance of asking “why?”

Simon Sinek encouraged us to Start With Why and, more recently is offering to help us Find Our Why. The subtext of each of these ...

Leadership, Organisational Change, Organisational Design

Do you value your snowflakes?

No, this is not a pejorative use of ‘snowflake’ to take a poke at the perceived fragility of younger people. Take a look at this ...

Leadership, Millennials@Work, Unconscious Bias