Truth, Trust & True Leadership

“At any level of management, you took the job knowing that the role put you in charge and on the hot seat for every success … Read more

How to Improve Real-World Leadership Practice

“The science of leadership is well established.” So says Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, a Professor of Business Psychology at University College London. This premise enables him to … Read more

Fresh Perspective on Employee Engagement

Employee Engagement is a hot topic right now. It is, however, possibly an even trickier one than most of us realise. That’s because we all … Read more

Empowering Employees & Performance through Employee Ownership

By offering employee ownership without equity the Zealise model provides a solution to all these limitations. It also offers an integrated participatory management approach that will ensure ownership in more than name and create the empowerment so essential to its ultimate success.

The Productivity Paradox: Why Business has a Role to Play in Reshaping the Global Economy

Improving productivity is a key objective for most organisations. After all it is the flip side of greater efficiency. Or is it? You don’t have … Read more

Unlocking Leadership

More than this, though, we have to stop incentivising on the basis of performance. This emphasis on performance distracts while driving and distorting all our reward systems. It inverts the order of this model and means, even at the highest level, that managing becomes more important than leading. Furthermore, if this is not bad enough, it also breeds competition amongst the employees and so builds silos, dilutes synergy and destroys organisational integrity.
You really do not have to look any further to unlock leadership.

A spectacular own goal!

For a profession that vociferously proclaims its right to a place at the high table of management the HR profession is remarkably adept at undermining … Read more

Work-Life Integrity is the Answer

A common theme in articles I have been reading this week is employer brand and the creation of places where people want to work. These … Read more

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