Mitigating the Cost of Living Crisis
Energy, food, fuel – the costs of all the basic essentials of life are increasing dramatically and rapidly. No wonder there is concern about inflation … Read more
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How is Your Disaster Recovery Plan?
Every good executive and any well-run organisation has a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP). For the last half century or more – ever since computers became … Read more
Physics, Psychology and Business
Newton’s 3rd Law of Physics. You might not remember it is as that but you almost certainly know it or have heard of it: “For … Read more
Meeting The Need For Transforming Leadership
In his book, “Leadership” the Pulitzer Prize winning author, James MacGregor Burns defines leadership as, “The reciprocal process of mobilizing, by persons with certain motives … Read more
Talking Heads or Turning Heads?
Of course you are not a talking head. But are you – or any members of your team – in danger of becoming one or … Read more
How to Create a Great Employer Brand
Where does your company rank in the echelons of “best employer” or “best company to work for”? After all the likelihood is that, even if … Read more
The Power of Purpose
It has been an extraordinary week. It is as though the whole world has aligned with my endeavours. New light has radiantly illuminated my inner convictions … Read more
Transform Your Business Through More Effective Personal Reviews
There is an increasing tendency to do away with annual performance reviews. That is as it should be, for performance assessment should be an ongoing activity. It is also one that is most honestly done by the employee when the pressures of measurement and its consequences are removed. Career development, however, is not something the person can address unilaterally: it calls for a conversation. Managers still need to sit down with employees and ascertain to what extent they are growing and developing as people, how their work is contributing to that, and what needs to be done to provide and sustain that self-development.
The Strange Dichotomy of Organisations and How to Bridge It
Thus, although coming from three totally different perspectives, all three of these writers reinforce one another’s conclusions. This makes their findings more credible, and more significant for you as a business leader. To significantly transform performance and results you have to create an environment that makes the best of your people or – more accurately – that allows them to make the best of themselves. For this you need to consider how you are going to create a system or systems that addresses the physical and psychological needs of your people. Both collectively and individually, because every individual matters.
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