To be effective leaders must be enrolled in their objective. We can identify an effective leader in that in every meeting, every telephone call and most especially every email they will be demanding to know how it moves them and the organisation toward the ultimate objective or goal. If they…
We train people in all sorts of technical areas. We would not expect an engineer, doctor or accountant to have “picked it up as they go along” so why do we expect everyone to be a natural leader? We promote people from a position of technical competence where they have…
Accounts were never designed for decision making. They are for recording and reporting upon historical transactions and that’s why effective leaders don’t use accounts to make decisions. Accounts are valuable for what they are designed to do and that is report past income and sunk costs. We have already discussed…
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…
It’s April 1st today or April Fools Day and it got me thinking – why celebrate fools? I love those television programs where one can watch talented people try their hardest to produce the best work that they can and learn to be better at their craft. They are, however,…
I had a very pleasant lunch yesterday with a colleague that I worked with a few years ago and it got me thinking that opportunities are there but you have to invest to find them. Lunch was good – the food was very nice and the conversation interesting as always.…
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…