Dr Winter examines the tensions between leadership and management, the structures that hold organisations together, and the ideas that shape organisational life. His work sits where governance, culture, and strategy converge.
Succession planning sustains organisations by preparing for leadership transitions while protecting values and goals. It fosters equity, transparency, and cultural alignment, using mentorship and collaboration to balance stability with innovation and build resilient leadership systems.
Empathy strengthens leadership by building trust, respect, and belonging. It supports fairness, psychological safety, and better decisions. Though it risks burnout, empathy remains essential for ethical, resilient, and sustainable organisations.
Metrics, when misapplied, risk distorting behaviours, eroding trust, and undermining organisational goals. Instead, by emphasising alignment with values, ethical leadership, and systems thinking, managers have a clear path to leveraging
FranklinCovey's Leading at the Speed of Trust program provides useful tools for trust-building but oversimplifies its complexity. A more effective approach embraces satisficing, focusing on practical actions that
Trust is vital for leadership, fostering unity toward shared goals. FranklinCovey's Leading at the Speed of Trust highlights trust as measurable, emphasising integrity, moral authority, capability, and results
Narrow Band Comprehension (NBC) illustrates a significant cognitive and organisational challenge, limiting both individual and collective performance through selective understanding. By fostering a culture that promotes comprehensive engagement, integrating holistic
Corporate innovation is widely praised as essential for success, yet it yields sustainable growth only when balanced within organisational, ethical, and cultural frameworks. Unrestrained focus on innovation can disrupt established
Advances in LLMs show promise, but token bias undermines their logical reliability. Small input shifts can distort outputs, posing risks in fields like medicine, law, and policy. Their dependence on pattern recognition over true reasoning demands closer scrutiny and better design.
Crisis situations in organisations are inevitable, testing a leader's ability to maintain clarity of vision, balance tradition with innovation, and act with moral courage. Yet leaders must rise
Gold of the Desert Kings is an engaging leadership simulation promoting strategy and teamwork under pressure, but its focus on competition overlooks emotional intelligence and ethics. Coupling it with formal leadership theory could yield deeper, longer-lasting learning.
Leadership in the digital age demands a balance between timeless human qualities—wisdom, courage, empathy—and the innovative use of technology. Ancient wisdom retains its centrality in the practice of
Inclusive leadership goes beyond traditional Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) strategies by fostering environments where diverse employees feel valued and empowered. Rooted in classical wisdom it emphasises empathy, ethical behaviour,
