Leaders can be categorised into those who have a desire for either dominance or prestige. So writes Emily Stone, reporting on research that has just gone to publication from John Maner and Charleen Case of the Kellogg Institute. You can find the article here. From their research, Maner and Case …
Slow Deciders Make Better Strategists
Sunday, August 14, 2016What contributes the most to making good competitive-strategy decisions – Education? Experience? Outsiders with new ideas? Mark Chussil, in a recent HBR Online article (read it here) shares some findings from data he has collected based on competitive-strategy decisions. Chussil has developed a matrix of decisions, highlighting the four styles …
If You Are Hiring on the Basis of Skills, You Are Doing it Wrong!
Sunday, July 31, 2016Managers typically don’t do enough to understand their own organisational culture, and that exposes the organisation to significant risk. Such is the assertion in a recent Australian Financial Review article (read it here) that looks into organisational culture. In fact, the traditional definition of organisational culture as being ‘the way …
The Secret to Being a Better Leader: See and Hear Others
Sunday, July 17, 2016Consistently people who have good empathy for others are proven to be better leaders, lead more effective teams, and gain power more readily. What does it mean to be empathetic? According to Dacher Keltner in a recent Science of Us article (Read it here), it is the understanding of what …
The Four Building Blocks of Change
Sunday, July 17, 2016Some people get really excited about change. I am a bit more cautious and tempered – maybe I’m just too lazy to be bothered with all the hard work that goes with it. However, change is really a constant in today’s environment, and while never easy, does need attention. …
Core Values
Monday, June 20, 2016What are your organisations’ core values? Not the ones that you say are values, but the ones that actually reflect who you really are? In a recent article by Nicole Fallon Taylor (read it here) she highlights core values and the role they play in our organisations. Essentially they are …