Trust and Leadership

What’s good for you can be good for others

People go better when they feel good. It’s something we all know. We can see it in ourselves and in others. It’s also the conclusion of any quality research on the subject of leadership. 

But if it’s that good, why don’t we put more focus on generating that outcome?

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The View from the Air

Feeling overwhelmed? 

Recently, ploughing through reams of leadership theories and models, I stood back from my messy whiteboard and wondered: does management have to be this complicated?

Then I remembered it doesn’t. I escaped this valley of overthink via an old memory: the helicopter view. Using it to organise my thoughts reminded me it’s a remarkable leadership tool in its own right. 

It’s not new. I first heard it in a cadet officer’s course in 1966. It was in army-speak then, but it applies to just about anything. 

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The Hybrid Opportunity

Don't we already do this? 

The cliches around the future of work can be confronting. It’s all about hybrid employment, constant re-skilling and the death of jobs-for-life. It’s a challenge for employees and managers alike: how will people be monitored? who coordinates production? how is performance assessed? That’s before we talk about the sheer speed of change. The technology is flooding into industry at a rapid rate. 

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The Plus Side of the Pandemic

Harnessing Urgency

Just prior to Covid I came across this quote from Oliver Sachs on to the nature of a near-death experience: “There is an intense sense of immediacy and reality, and a dramatic acceleration of thought, perception and reaction, which allows one to negotiate danger successfully.” 

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Stakeholders Vs Shareholders

Has Covid Brought Them Closer?

Shareholder Value is like a strategic grandparent, supported by old-fashioned common sense that if you don’t maintain or increase value for shareholders — whether there’s one or many — you may eventually go broke. That means layoffs, bankruptcies, possibly recessions and a fall in society’s general wellbeing. 

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