Pursuing Good Business Leadership

Imagine, right now, that you are attached to a lie-detector and you are asked, “Are you a good business leader?” How would you answer?    If … Read more

Achieving the Remarkable

Achieving the remarkable is truly a team effort, for both an individual and an organisation. It depends on every member of the team doing their best, personally and collectively. You could say it is the result of a number of PBs. So if you want an organisation that achieves the remarkable and creates WOW! you need to recognise that ‘Every Individual Matters.’

Kill the Performance Review

Performance reviews remain in the news. Last week I wrote about Accenture’s abandoning them, but this week came the even more shattering news that GE … Read more

Beyond the Performance Appraisal

Perhaps you have heard that Accenture is abandoning performance appraisals. (If not, you can read about it here.) Whenever or however you learned this, you … Read more

Teamwork: Fact or Fiction?

 “’Teamwork’ is an illusion created when the individual components within a human system accomplish a goal that is credited to the collective, rather than to … Read more

Employee Engagement is an Attitude, not a Project!

Do you ALWAYS wake up with a desire to jump straight out of bed and meet the day? I doubt it. Even if you do … Read more

37 years to go?

I was shocked this week by an email quoting research by British sociologist David Halperin that only 29% of British people believed that others can … Read more