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.
Misused metrics distort behaviour, erode trust, and weaken goals. Used wisely—aligned with values, ethics, and systems thinking—they support better decisions and create environments where people and organisations can thrive.
FranklinCovey’s Leading at the Speed of Trust offers helpful tools but oversimplifies trust. A satisficing approach—grounded in practical action and shaped by culture and relationships—builds trust iteratively, supporting resilient, sustainable leadership.
Trust underpins leadership and shared purpose. FranklinCovey frames trust as measurable through behaviours like integrity and capability, boosting speed and lowering costs. Yet trust endures only when leaders also attend to relational and contextual realities.
Narrow Band Comprehension limits individual and organisational performance through selective understanding. Organisations can counter it by promoting broad engagement, holistic metrics, and governance-based accountability.
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.
Inclusive leadership goes beyond DEI by creating cultures where difference is valued and people are empowered. Grounded in empathy and practical wisdom, it avoids tokenism through transparency, mentorship, and dialogue. Used carefully, humour can strengthen inclusion and trust.
High-performing teams are built on trust, psychological safety, clear roles, open communication, and shared accountability. Classical insight and modern research agree: cohesion, collaboration, and a common purpose enable teams to adapt and perform under pressure.
Karl Popper's theory of falsification provides a powerful framework for modern leadership. By embracing the principles of falsification, leaders can foster innovation, agility, and resilience in their organisations. This also allows the evolution of our understanding by discarding theories that do n
True strategy requires deep analysis, clear choices, alignment, and continuous learning. Leaders must avoid vague goals and instead create actionable, coherent plans that drive real value and competitive advantage in a complex business environment. A case study of IKEA shows how this approached was
In business, not all 'strategies' are true strategies; many are just vague platitudes offering little guidance. True strategies are specific, actionable, and aligned with organisational goals, enabling effective decision-making and success. Avoiding platitudes requires rigorous analysis, clear choic
