Dealing with stress at work: how to manage your energy to be more effective
Stress in the workplace has become a burning issue for many organizations today. Employees everywhere are faced with greater demands brought about by many different factors: accelerating organizational...
View Article2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!....
View ArticleEffective performance: it’s all about trust. 10 tips for managers to develop...
It is clear to many people today that we are experiencing a crisis of trust. The recent global banking and financial crisis seems to have undermined radically the bedrock of all business success:...
View ArticleImagine yourself leading: be the change you want to see in the world!
At the heart of all human performance and engagement is a fundamental desire to serve a purpose greater than ourselves. The world is changing so fast and so many barriers are collapsing. And yet, so...
View ArticleGrow your top performers in house – don’t buy them from the outside
Talent management is a very hot topic for many businesses today. A lot of time, effort and investment is being dedicated to attracting, retaining and developing key talent for key organizational roles....
View ArticleHow to change the world: the art of enchanting others
Driving change: enchanting others We all seek to change or contribute to changing positively if not the whole world then at least that small part of it we inhabit. At work, after all, that is what we...
View ArticleU are alive! Avail of this “once in a lifetime opportunity”– Discover Maser,...
http://maserart.com/video/ Maser is a Dublin street artist whose work not only celebrates the city and the people of Dublin but ordinary citizens everywhere. Maser’s message is simple and his...
View ArticleThe science of ethical persuasion: 6 key principles
Whatever our role in the workplace, be it a sales person, product development manager, marketer, customer support manager, accountant, HR, even CEO, much of our success at work will depend on our...
View ArticleWhy some succeed where others fail. Start with “Why” and not “What” or “How”!
Why do some succeed where others fail? Why are some organizations so successful where other organizations fail ? Why for example is Apple so innovative year after year after year whereas other computer...
View ArticleDriving higher engagement – 6 rules for Smart simplicity
“Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler”. Albert Einstein Why is productivity in some organizations so disappointing? Despite all the innovations in technology and all the...
View ArticleAutonomy, Mastery and Purpose: 3 keys to driving higher performance
Why organizations need to rethink their carrot and stick approach if they want to motivate employees to deliver higher performance. The “carrot and stick” approach is a tried and trusted classical way...
View ArticleSimplicity beyond complexity – The Competing Values leadership framework
Organizations today are more and more complex and it is very challenging indeed for managers to understand how to deal with this complexity in an effective way. Quite often, managers are torn between...
View ArticleThe Power of Purpose
Check out this very enjoyable and thought-provoking speech by Robert E. Quinn from the Ross Business School at the University of Michigan in which Robert reveals very simply how we can all bring...
View ArticleA Contrarian’s view to start-up success -from Zero to One by Peter Thiel
It could seem quite contrarian indeed to question generally accepted conventional wisdom that competition is synonymous with capitalism. Ever since Adam Smith, we have been educated to believe that...
View ArticleAutonomy, Mastery and Purpose: 3 keys to driving higher performance
Why organizations need to rethink their carrot and stick approach if they want to motivate employees to deliver higher performance. The “carrot and stick” approach is a tried and trusted classical way...
View ArticleUnveiling the Tesla Model 3 – Answering the question Why?
On March 31, 2016 last, Elon Musk unveiled the new Tesla model 3 and from a Leadership point of view, what is really compelling is the way he chose to do it. Rather than trying to sell the Model 3 to...
View ArticleWhat makes a Great Team? 7 “Scrum…tastic” Success factors certainly help!
So Leicester City has won the English Premier League! If you are not an avid soccer or sports fan, this piece of news will probably leave you cold. But for all the crazy sports fanatics around the...
View ArticleWhat’s killing Employee Engagement and how to deal with it?
JFK once said « Things do not happen, they are made to happen » and Mark Hurd, CEO of Oracle may have been thinking of JFK when he chose Employee Engagement as the topic for his address at the opening...
View ArticleWhy Change Initiatives fail and what we can do about it.
According to a study back in 2013 by Towers Watson, only 25% of change initiatives are successful in the long term! (See Victor Lipman, Forbes, Why Change Management Fails) Quite dismal results when...
View ArticleBusiness Transformation: Key “hard factors” that influence success!
I wrote in a previous post about why many change management initiative fail and made some suggestions as to what to do to swing the balance in favor of success. If according to research, many...
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