Work from home has exposed a huge problem that has been sitting in so many organisations like a ticking time bomb for so long. That of poor management and even worse leadership. We have seen a large number of high profile organisations (you know who you are) with “leaders” and…
Work From Home or WFH as it has become known is one of the few positives to come from the pandemic, but is it effective? There is no doubt that in many cases WFH is very efficient and productive but because extremes are rarely a good idea and humans have…
Our post Covid world has highlighted many possible advantages from changing work patterns but does work from home stop leadership development? In a recent article published in the Harvard Business Review entitled What Leadership Development Should Look Like In The Hybrid Era by Julia Birkinshaw, Maya Gudka and Steve Marshall…
Why do bad managers hate work from home? We have recently heard many managers objecting to their staff working from home. The most recent of these is Jacob Rees-Mogg a man whose ideas of work are firmly based in the industrial revolution and have never moved on. So why do…
When I first started looking into the four day week it seemed like a good idea, but recently it got me thinking and now I ask myself “Is The Four Day Week A Good Idea?” I think not. Let me explain. If the reason that people work is to pass…
I read an article today about how a poor management decision lead to a company losing a fortune as a result of ignoring the request of a worker and it got me thinking – Why do we need management? It’s clear that we need leaders and strategic decision makers but…
The Definition Of Work Needs To Change If you go to the dictionary the definition of work is: An activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result or: A task or tasks to be undertaken. I don’t like these definitions as gardening or…