“I sense that someone on the panel is seeking a confident, self-starting team builder with experience at cross-org… no, cross-cultural working.”
Silo working and career progression
This may be just me but in every large organisation I have worked in, and in every employee survey I have read, people complain about internal communication between departments and opportunities for career progression…
Crisis 5: resilience
In the name of efficiency, we eliminate excess capacity. It is seen as a virtue to use every last resource, person and moment to the full. This works when times are good but reduces our resilience in the face of the unexpected…
Gatekeeping
As a leader you are actively policing the boundary of your organisation. Keeping out the toxins and distractions, seeking out the assets and the insights…
Visibility
People don’t always see us at our best. They aren’t always comforted and protected. We are really bad at secrets. But I think the effect is overall positive…
Defining leadership
Leadership can be defined as the combination of vision, initiation and persuasion…
Kindness
Reframe what you consider to be kindness and your concept of welfare. Think bigger. What may be kind in the moment can be cruel in the longer term. Indeed, is it kindness at all, or the avoidance of conflict?
Priorities
Here are some tactics for reducing your priorities to a manageable number and sharpening your focus, in the face of limitless opportunities, innumerable threats and rampant uncertainty…
The pace of change
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a business article must begin by declaring the unprecedented and accelerating pace of change in our global hyperconnected era…
Undelegation
It can be gratifying to have people working for us. The reality is that they should be working for something greater than us…
Note to self 