Over the last few months some leaders have been surprised to see that just because a team is forced to work remotely, it doesn’t mean there has to be a reduction in performance. In fact, many teams can achieve higher levels of performance working in this way. Those...
My last blog challenged leaders to stop hierarchy and bureaucracy holding their companies back in 2020. I also promised to provide some advice about how to overcome it, so this is the first of a series of articles addressing that challenge and providing advice about...
The majority of companies are way too bureaucratic and hierarchical for their own good. They don’t use the assets and capabilities that they have effectively and are failing to achieve their true potential. In fact, based on the work of Gary Hamel of the London...
Conflict resolution, conflict management, how to handle conflict … there’s lots of advice out there about how to deal with conflict in your business. But what if we accepted and embraced it, rather than attempting to banish it? What if it turned out that conflict was...
To be more successful, change cannot always be led from the top of an organisation. To respond to change quickly and effectively the way organisations change itself needs to change. I recently spoke at a conference on Growth through Transformation, where I contested...
