On judgement, authority, and the exercise of leadership—as distinct from management, and rarely as tidy as the literature pretends.
73 essays
When leadership is exerted in this form, organisations become increasingly accountable, agile, and autonomous — all the while operating at scale. At this point, an organisation can truly be described as 'purpose-driven' — a genuinely awesome competitive advantage.
This approach yields good, if imperfect, OKRs while advancing real management: pushing teams beyond comfort to learn, improve, and explore—driving meaningful transformation and unlocking organisational value.
By reframing the leadership models presented, propositions for managers can be advanced to enable better leadership of people with GenMe attitudes.
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.
The Queen was an ever constant in a changeable and unpredictable world. Over seven decades, she was always there for us.
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.
Knowing this only shifts the problem from 'how' to 'when'. In other words, at what speed should the change management take place?
Bellowing preconceived ideas with ever increasing volume is seldom a path to organisational success and Vedic happiness.
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.
Pushing back on unorthodox views has given rise to 'wrongspeak,' 'the things we believe to be true but cannot say,' creating a Media Archipelago.
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.
Variability in people leads to variability in the anticipated behaviour. In this context there is always a degree of unpredictability in behaviour.
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.