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InBusiness Leadership Management

Anchoring Teams Through Transformation

By adopting this approach, we will not only end up writing good, albeit not perfect, OKRs, but also take that vital step in the practice of management; taking individuals or teams outside their zone of comfort to learn, improve, and explore — ultimately achieving meaningful transformation that unlocks value for the organisation.

4 June 2023
Read Time10 mins

InBusiness Leadership

Sustaining Value in the Transformation Life Cycle

No fixed set of actions can define, measure, or achieve success. Thus, trying to make transformation a tick box affair is to setup an organisation for failure. This is because successful transformation is as much about the process as it is about the outcome.

28 May 2023
Read Time12 mins

InBusiness Generations Leadership

Enabling Managers in a GenMe Landscape

Providing more structure, not less, in both the daily tasks of employees and their perceptions about career pathways, offers the strongest viable path to improved staff retention and higher team performance.

21 May 2023
Read Time12 mins

InBusiness Generations Leadership

Challenges for Leadership when Managing GenMe

By reframing the leadership models presented, propositions for managers can be advanced to enable better leadership of people with GenMe attitudes.

14 May 2023
Read Time18 mins

InBusiness Generations Leadership Social Comment

Leading GenMe

Given the obvious dichotomy in this approach to work generations, the practical implications for management are that the leadership theories many have encountered will struggle to provide solutions when it comes to developing coherent teams.

7 May 2023
Read Time7 mins

InBusiness Leadership

Great Managers Free Up Their Time

Managers often fail to build autonomous teams,keeping themselves in a job to solve for problems which should have long since been put behind the organisation.

29 April 2023
Read Time10 mins

InBusiness Leadership

The Effective WIP

The value of a WIP is to discuss and monitor results. Unpacking how the outcomes of work relate to the organisation's strategic goals.

2 April 2023
Read Time11 mins

InBusiness Privacy

Acting for Privacy – An Australian Story

There is the case to be made that this is not only the cost of doing business in the digital age but that, like environmental protections, there are great rewards to be reaped in improved quality of life.

25 March 2023
Read Time8 mins

InBusiness Leadership

Questions for a Future Employer

An interview is a crossroad, one at which you are making a choice between merely seeking a job and wage or using the opportunity to grow a career.

1 November 2022
Read Time10 mins

InBusiness Response

Response – Why PI Planning is like a wolf in sheep’s clothing

When PI Planning is deployed by leaders who have the nuance, skill, and strategic capability to deliver an Agile project with a multi-year roadmap, PI Planning is an invaluable framework for program delivery.

9 October 2022
Read Time11 mins

InBusiness Leadership

Responsibility, Ownership, Accountability

These are words we use often in an organisational context, but words that are seldom discussed; and when discussed, often done so opaquely or inaccurately.

4 October 2022
Read Time2 mins

InBusiness Leadership Philosophy Response

Response — Sitting with Ambiguity

Sit with ambiguity, but be aware of when a seemingly circular conversation is enhancing a definitional understanding and when it is just a group of individuals unable to comprehend ambiguity hoping that a drawn out conversation will nail down the problem.

12 February 2022
Read Time6 mins

InBusiness Publishing

Polywork, A New Professional Network

I have often thought that an individual is far more than their job title or pay scale. Which means that even in a professional networking context, your portfolio of experience should also include your experiences.

31 October 2021
Read Time3 mins

InBusiness Leadership Popular

Five Stages of Autonomy

At this stage, employees, whether remote or in an office, enjoy true autonomy. The Nirvana Mullenweg and Co. are in search of for their businesses.

13 July 2020
Read Time5 mins

InBusiness Leadership Popular

A Change Management Primer

Knowing this only shifts the problem from 'how' to 'when'. In other words, at what speed should the change management take place?

5 July 2020
Read Time5 mins

InBusiness Politics Privacy Technology

Distributism

To replace a People's Republic network with a Democratic Club network isn't necessarily an improvement because it only prefences one centralised solution over another.

29 May 2020
Read Time2 mins

InBusiness Leadership Philosophy

‘I’ and ‘Me’

The notion that the 'significant symbols,' found in the harmony between the projected and received understanding of the gesture which transports meaning between employee and manager, are not fixed, but are subject to continual recreation allowing infinite flexibility when assessing project planning.