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.

A Small Step in the Right Direction

HR Magazine has recently published research data from Towers Watson indicating that senior managers earned 35% of their base pay in bonuses and shares in … Read more

Future Reward: The Future of Reward Programs

In case you haven't seen it, I thought I would share some highlights of the 2009 Hay Group and WorldatWork "Reward Next Practices" report, which … Read more