organisational

Who Didn’t Voice Their Concerns?

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If you think about it, no organisational failure of any magnitude can come as a surprise. Someone, somewhere, was aware that things were not right. … Read more

A Key to Optimising Your Human Capital

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The perpetual balancing act between selfishness and selflessness, or self-interest and group-interest, is evolutionarily fundamental. So much so that it has been described as “The … Read more

Strategy and Your People: How to Sustain Success

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Recently I came across an article in the July-August 2015 Harvard Business Review entitled, “People before Strategy.” (I am not sure the link will work, … Read more

Shape Sustained Organisational Success by Building it into Your DNA

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In 1991 Charles Handy concluded that the basic purpose of an organisation is to perpetuate itself within the context of the environment in which it … Read more

How Love at Work Transforms Performance

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“Fortune favours the bold.” Or, perhaps Queen Elizabeth I’s legendary rendering of the sentiment as “Faint heart never won fair maiden”, may be more appropriate … Read more

Good Leadership and Organisational Well-Being

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Continuing with the last week’s theme and pursuing the subject of leadership and the question of whether or not you are a good leader, another … Read more

Pursuing Good Business Leadership

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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

No Mas! It’s Time to Make a Stand!

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You could count all the words of Spanish I know on one hand, but “No Mas!” is a phrase I remember well (thanks to an … Read more

Avoid the Unfortunate Consequences of The People Paradox

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Have you ever heard of The People Paradox? I hadn’t either, although I was well aware of Lord Acton’s famous quote that, “Power corrupts and … Read more

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