16 Jul 2020 | Culture, Leadership, Productivity |
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...
11 Mar 2020 | Change management, Culture, Inclusion, Leadership, Management, Productivity |
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...
2 Jan 2020 | Culture, Leadership, Management, Productivity |
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...
4 Oct 2018 | Conflict, Culture, Inclusion, Innovation, Productivity, Trust |
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...
24 May 2018 | Culture, Leadership, Management, Productivity, Trust |
I was a newly commissioned officer in the Royal Air Force when I was asked to inspect a junior airwoman. It was a task that fell to me because I was the Duty Officer that night. The formal inspection was part of her punishment for breaking some rule or other. She was...
22 Sep 2017 | Culture, Leadership, Management, Productivity |
The focus on happiness at work is unhelpful and misses the point. Work isn’t about happiness, it’s about getting stuff done. As my Dad once said to me, “If it was meant to be fun, they’d have called it ‘fun’, not ‘work’”. I talk to audiences about how organisations...
