It is so easy for a business plan, or a strategic plan to become disconnected from the people that put it into action and who ultimately provide the outputs that it is measured by. This may occur through their lack of involvement or input, or the challenge they have in seeing how it is applicable […]

Early in my career I was a member of an executive management team and that group dynamic had some curious characteristics that I have seen at many times across my career. As you would imagine, each team member had responsibility for a significant section of the business and this forum was used to report in […]

In the current environment, leaders tend to be well aware of the need to engage their workforce in the strategy created by the organisations leaders. They seek to engage to ensure their teams have the same understanding as them and they can see why their efforts will contribute to its achievement and consequently, how they […]

Over the past couple of decades there has been an increasing focus on teams and how critical they are to business success. The sheer amount of management and organisational development literature on this topic is overwhelming, with the majority claiming that teams are sacrosanct – the be all and end all. But are they? Most […]

Are leadership qualities inherent? Are people born great leaders with natural attributes, or are great leaders developed and shaped over time. I will never forget a debate that started on a leadership development training program where I was facilitating a behavioural styles awareness session. Afterwards, one of the participants posed the provocative question – are […]

Within large complex organisations, risk management is often considered at the enterprise level and at times, also at the tactical or project level, but rarely are the two lenses of risk brought together in an integrated way. The reason these lenses are not often brought together is because it is not easy to integrate enterprise […]

When my business partner handed me a book – Insights from Inside Google – WORK RULES and said, “you might find this interesting”, my initial response was…. “A book about Google and technologies I won’t understand, this is going to be a hard slog….” . Imagine my surprise when I realised it was about people […]