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Take Away Line An organisational community can be torn over questions of change. All too often, as in the case presented here, resistance can be configured as a monolith to be crushed or avoided. But working with an organisational leader … Continue reading
Take Away Line All of us have these little annoying loops that go round in our minds. They can sometimes appear almost paranoid. But can we think of them as purposeful in anyway? Sometimes they can mask a bigger concern, … Continue reading
Take Away Line Half-hearted praise does as much for self-esteem as casual criticism. If you want to build the confidence of your people, they need to feel recognised not praised. And that’s about how you engage with them. Whole-hearted and fully … Continue reading
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Take Away Line If there’s anything we can learn from the collapse of the banks and other major institutions, it’s that their boards have to be more than a mere shadowy presence: their input matters. The consequences of weak governance … Continue reading
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Take Away Line As the group at the ‘top of the shop’ in their organisations, there is an easy and natural tendency for boards to become somewhat closed off, like a closed system, impervious to signals of how it may … Continue reading
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Take Away Line Good governance, along with its great governance and weak governance counterparts, is only partly a describable condition – and in this blog we have a go at that – but it is also an outcome from a … Continue reading
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Take Away Line Rattling through the bush on a long journey can be a great way to reflect, discuss and formulate. On one journey in the Madagascan Highlands, we talked about how to choose the right leadership development programme, developing … Continue reading
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Take Away Line Whether it’s to survive the tough times we live in or to perform in the Olympics, we have to keep well. Keeping well is the baseline for job satisfaction and happiness generally. But wellness is not just … Continue reading
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Take Away Line While the word challenge frequently came to mind during the Olympics and Paralympics, the word boredom did not. Yet, all jobs have a mixture of challenge and repetition. What’s our stance in relation to work challenge? How … Continue reading
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Take Away Line The zone is one of the fairly rare moments that all athletes know and treasure. Indeed, most of us experience flow at one point or another. But like all physical states, it’s temporary and while we may … Continue reading
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