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.
Read MoreCategory 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.
Read MoreWith a Quiet Heart
The Queen was an ever constant in a changeable and unpredictable world. Over seven decades, she was always there for us.
Read MoreJotting – Anatomy of a Search Engine
I wonder if there is an alternative reading in which they did not make a conscious decision to be 'evil'?
Read MoreResponse — 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.
Read MoreTeflon Leadership
Those who rise to the top jobs, do so not because they are better leaders or have fewer blots on their copybook — it is because they are better able to shrug off criticism and weather the blistering attacks that are directed at all holders of public office.
Read MoreFive 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.
Read MoreA 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?
Read MoreOde to a Yoghurt Pot
Bellowing preconceived ideas with ever increasing volume is seldom a path to organisational success and Vedic happiness.
Read MoreLeading From The Front
Plato wrote of cardinal virtues and their importance in the character of a good city. It is tempting to pickup this theme in regards to leadership.
Read MoreMedia Archipelago
Pushing back on unorthodox views has given rise to 'wrongspeak,' 'the things we believe to be true but cannot say,' creating a Media Archipelago.
Read More‘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.
Read MoreNo One Is To Blame For Misbehaviour
Variability in people leads to variability in the anticipated behaviour. In this context there is always a degree of unpredictability in behaviour.
Read MoreLeadership: A Human Encounter
In the postmodern age, we are surrounded by more heroes than in a Homeric epic, with football players, life guards and even movie stars being thrown into the mix.
Read MorePatagonia Traditional CSR, Strategic CSR or CSV
CSR only has a limited connection to the business while CSV is 'integral to a company’s profitability and competitive position.'
Read MoreClimate Change, Political Stagnation
The satirical ‘Yes Prime Minister’ quipped about international organizations: Hacker: But surely we’re all committed to the European ideal?Sir Humphrey:…