How Management is Lobotomising Leadership

The divide between leadership and management is being perpetuated and exacerbated by our modern systems.
Increasingly sophisticated systems have accelerated business to the extent they have thrust decision-making ‘down-the-line’ and created what is popularly called distributed leadership or decision making. That is a good thing, but unfortunately, with their built-in and rigid controls to anticipate and cover every possibility, they have, paradoxically, also taken away the decision making capability from the people who operate them.

When Policy Plays Principle!

You have to hand it to the government for trying. On the face of it trying to improve productivity by enhancing employee engagement through employee … Read more

Sustainable Success Through Optimum Employee Engagement

Sustained success for any organisation depends first and foremost on its employees. Thus it seems self-evident that the more engaged employees are, the more successful … Read more

Education and Employee Engagement

A colleague sent me the link to a TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson.It was interesting; informative, amusing and absorbing, but most of all it … Read more

Beyond Motivation: The 3 key elements of 21st century management & how to embed them

Can you not just imagine how this would transform your business and its performance and results? There is no magic formula but this could be the closest thing. So what are you waiting for?

Breaking the vicious cycle of distrust

How important is trust to you?  No relationship where trust is undermined, destroyed or non-existent is a healthy relationship. Distrust is a vicious circle that … Read more

Closing the gap between rhetoric and reality

How closely does your organisational behaviour resemble your organisational rhetoric? And does it really matter? I say that it does. After all, if an individual … Read more

Work-Life Integrity: A Matter of Timing!

In my last blog I revealed the new (to me) term of ‘work-life integrity.’ I described how it was an eureka term for me and … Read more

Overcome the small results indicative of small minds

It was so powerful it was like a blow to the solar plexus.  It was only a statement, but it took my breath away. One … Read more

Mind-blowing waste that can be (easily) avoided

"I love it when a plan comes together!" You are doubtless familiar with the character "Hannibal" Smith's catch phrase from "The A Team." And no … Read more