The Employee Engagement Profit Chain
The motherlode of wealth runs not through the executive corridors but through the vocational landscape of frontline employees.” I know I quoted this, from “Firms … Read more
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Opening the Motherlode of Business Success
What is the key driver of the success of your business? Pause and take some time to think about the answer to that question. When … Read more
Why leadership is imperative, and how you can unleash it in your organisation.
“Management is not leadership.” Those bald words are from John Kotter’s 2012 updated preface to his 1996 book “Leading Change.” He makes the statement to … Read more
Slip the Surly Bonds of Misguided Management Theory
You cannot help wondering what management lessons need to be learned from the Grenfell Tower Fire disaster. Undoubtedly the Inquiry will highlight many. Yet it … Read more
The Power of Ownership
“Mine!” Who hasn’t heard a young child say that? The concept of ownership is one of our most primitive senses. Indeed, I once read that … Read more
How Love at Work Transforms Performance
“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
Why You Need Love at Work
The idea was novel. It had promise. It was exciting. Yet part of me still baulked. “People won’t take me seriously.” “I will be ridiculed.” … Read more
Good Leadership and Organisational Well-Being
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
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
How do you view change?
Change is an integral part of life. So much so that we are often completely unaware of it. We simply wake up one day to … Read more