“We need to re-think the culture of risk-taking,” writes John Fletcher. “In today’s bureaucratized and corporate world, individuals rarely suffer any major damage if the risks they take lead to disaster. Heads they win, tails we lose.”
Posted on 25 June 2009
“We need to re-think the culture of risk-taking,” writes John Fletcher. “In today’s bureaucratized and corporate world, individuals rarely suffer any major damage if the risks they take lead to disaster. Heads they win, tails we lose.”
Posted on 11 June 2009
“We cannot persist with ‘business as usual’ and avoid sabotaging our future and risking corporate suicide,” writes read Bay Jordan. “Only getting away from the old-fashioned, accountants’ attitude to people as costs can offer salvation.”
Posted on 08 June 2009
Are you a procrastinator . . . or are you being made to be one by your organization and your boss? Carmine Coyote explains.
Posted on 03 June 2009
“The conclusion that best fits the evidence,” says Carmine Coyote, “is that creativity and change mostly come about in organizations in spite of those in charge, not because of them; and that all the talk about needing creative people who think and ask questions is just that—talk.”
Posted on 01 June 2009
Are organizational communications really as bad as they are made out to be? Or has ‘communications’ become a buzzword that allows senior management to divert the blame and avoid dealing with the real issues?
Posted on 27 May 2009
Do we need managers to ‘motivate’ their staff? Motivation by management is mostly command-and-control carried on behind a smokescreen of smiling faces, so it’s hard to see that we do.
Posted on 25 May 2009
Carmine Coyote takes a cool look at why relationships between bosses and subordinates are such a problem.
Posted on 12 May 2009
Words are just words. If you say you are going to do one thing and do another, of what value are the words you spoke? If you want to be considered an honest, authentic leader, you must maintain congruence between words and actions.
Posted on 05 May 2009
Michael Taplin explains the real difference between leadership and supervision. Both are necessary, but they have to be done in the right order.
Posted on 16 April 2009
By creating, then satisfying, high expectations, you may be hampering your employee’s perception of the value in their current work environment. Nationwide, writes Simon Oates, this is crushing the ability of small businesses to rethink strategies and cut costs during this recession.
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