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Leadership Role Model Example

We need a leadership role model example to learn from and look up to. I’ve just read an article on a Gallup poll entitled, ‘Why great managers are so rare.’ The poll reports 80% failure rate in selecting the right managers and says the cost to companies is billions of dollars per year. It concludes that few managers have the talent to achieve excellence.

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Get Off To A Good Start

Why it’s important to get off to a good start if you want a successful meeting. Like almost everyone else, I have been involved in hundreds of Zoom calls in the past couple of years. I design them, I lead them, and I attend them. I’m sad to say I continue to see some...
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The Leader’s Role in Change: Seven responsibilities of leading strategic change

This is the third of three blogs on creating strategy and implementing change. The first was a repeat of a 2014 blog called ‘Common management mistakes in implementing change’, the second described ‘Six lessons in introducing organisational change in non-profits’. In...
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Six Lessons in introducing organisational change in non-profits

A couple of years ago I posted a blog called ‘Common management mistakes in implementing change’. I’ve made a link to that one if you’d like a refresher. I’ve been involved this year at different stages of quite a few change processes. I reflected back on those...
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