The Employee Engagement Profit Chain

The motherlode of wealth runs not through the executive  corridors but through the vocational landscape of frontline employees.” I know I quoted this, from “Firms … Read more

Opening the Motherlode of Business Success

What is the key driver of the success of your business? Pause and take some time to think about the answer to that question. When … Read more

Searching For Better

There can be little doubt that the world is in crisis. The number of issues humanity is facing seems to increase daily. Soaring inflation and … Read more

A Powerful New Social Contract

It’s true: you don’t know what you don’t know! So, logically, you cannot miss it. But that does not justify the old adage that “ignorance … Read more

How to ‘Bazooka VUCA’

VUCA is an acronym increasingly widely used to describe the operating climate you, like most organizations, face today: Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous. This environment … Read more

Why leadership is imperative, and how you can unleash it in your organisation.

“Management is not leadership.”  Those bald words are from John Kotter’s 2012 updated preface to his 1996 book “Leading Change.” He makes the statement to … Read more

Why You Need Love at Work

The idea was novel.  It had promise. It was exciting. Yet part of me still baulked. “People won’t take me seriously.” “I will be ridiculed.” … Read more

Business Leadership: Modern Day Pioneering

You don’t have to be a leader to be aware of the pace of change and the challenges of competing and surviving in today’s global … Read more

When will we learn?

When will we learn, or, as Bob Dylan put it, “When will we ever learn?” That is the question I found myself pondering after reading … Read more