READ THE FULL GRAPHIC VERSION Kate Cooper urges decision makers, ‘lead us not into something worse’ Mistakes provide critical experience. Many managers and leaders learn their craft by getting things wrong. They review, revise, redo. Much of the time, their second attempt is better than their first. Poor leadership is not always the consequence of … Read more
READ THE FULL GRAPHIC VERSION Perry Timms uncovers the Schneider Culture Model Time to reboot this column: from smartphone apps, to organizational ‘apps’ – the big ideas that help make sense of how we interoperate with each other and with systems of work. My first pick flows, inevitably, from thinking about the pandemic’s impact on … Read more
READ THE FULL GRAPHIC VERSION Coaches can help leaders and key workers alike adapt to the new normal We are living and leading in times where nothing is predictable. Uncertainty, anxiety, frustration: for many of us, these emotions define our days far more than optimism, future-orientation and a focus on reaching new highs in our … Read more
READ THE FULL GRAPHIC VERSION Altruism, compassion and empathy are essential for a rapidly digitizing world Our way of life has begun to be impacted by the advance of artificial intelligence (AI) in ways we could not have imagined a few years ago. The fast-moving evolution of our digital world, accelerated by the virus that … Read more
READ THE FULL GRAPHIC VERSION A willingness to explore what you don’t know is the foundation for leading more effectively In theory, curiosity is an essential leadership behaviour. We lionize the Steve Jobs and Thomas Edisons of the world. The business journals regularly proclaim curiosity’s value. But in practice, who has time? Sure, we can … Read more
READ THE FULL GRAPHIC VERSION The answer to intractable problems like coronavirus comes from dialogue and discussion, not blind dynamism. Ploughing a determined, certain leadership path based on the ‘the science’ is absurd. There are several competing schools of science, and always have been. Scientific thought is a loose collection of theory, argument, experiment and … Read more
In this edition of The GC Index People Leader Series Dr John Mervyn-Smith, Chief Psychologist at The GC Index, talks to Darren Fell, CEO at Crunch Accounting about what it is to be a leader and how his natural proclivities support him in his leadership role. Darren is the Founder/CEO at Crunch and has been … Read more
READ THE FULL GRAPHIC VERSION Camelia Ram looks at how leaders can stay focused on long-term goals in the face of short-term shocks When we make any decision, we are trying to bridge the gap between a current state and some state in the future which we want to be true. The space between those … Read more
READ THE FULL GRAPHIC VERSION Leaders’ first priority should be developing their teams. Angela Lane and Sergey Gorbatov explain why In 1999, Peter Drucker made a prediction: “The most valuable assets of the 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable asset of a 21st-century institution… will be its knowledge workers and their productivity.” … Read more
READ THE FULL GRAPHIC VERSION We know what will be needed to succeed in the decade ahead, says Jacob Morgan. Leaders have to be ready What will it take to succeed in the next decade? Leadership books crowd the shelves, but they’re all focused on what it takes to be a good leader today. What … Read more