Articles
Thoughts on leadership, competence, organisational culture and the future of work
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Gaslighting at Work
Gas lighting is more common than most people can appreciate. You will see it in your personal life, but more and more, you will either witness gaslighting at work or suffer the…
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What is Work Ethic
I have looked at lousy management practices and what makes a good leader in previous articles. Also, I covered the issue in today’s society where meritocracy has died in the liberal West.…
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Using Instructional Design to Improve Learning Environments
Using Instructional design to improve learning environments is a concept slowly becoming a requirement in education and industry. Although instructional design only recently becoming a phrase more widely used it has been…
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Leadership Values: Why What Leaders Tolerate Matters
Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters Almost every organisation claims to have values. Leaders display them on walls, print them in corporate literature and repeat them during induction programmes as though putting a collection…
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Leadership and Bullying
Is Leadership and Bullying a choice or a necessary evil? Leadership and bullying may seem like opposite sides of the same coin, but they have distinct characteristics and vastly different impacts on…
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The Power of Servant Leadership
The Power of Servant Leadership: Putting Your Team First is a concept that emphasises a leadership style focused on serving the needs of the team members and stakeholders rather than prioritising the…
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Chain of Command
People who know me understand that the chain of command is the only management structure for me. It is the only management structure that has stood the rigours of time, proven itself…
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Employing Veterans: Why Organisations Keep Overlooking Proven Competence
There is something slightly absurd about the way many organisations talk about the skills they want from employees. Read almost any senior job advertisement and you will find the same familiar requirements.…
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Bad Management and Office Assassins – A reason to be self-employed
Bad Managers, Bad management and office assassins? It sounds like Game of Thrones! To be honest, I believe every company in the west is like this. You have your different sections, the…
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Servant Leaders
I am at that point in my life and career as a servant leader. That I find myself defending this style of leadership and mindset more and more often. There are many…
