Organisational Culture

  • Entitlement is a Disease

    Entitlement is a Disease

    Entitlement is a disease sweeping through western liberal society. When or how it will end is anyone’s guess. With the entitled coming together and having entitled children, I do not see it…

  • Entitlement in the Workplace

    Entitlement in the Workplace

    I am sure that over recent years, we have all seen, witnessed or been a target of entitlement in the workplace. These people can make your working life difficult and even upsetting…

  • Unwritten Rules at Work

    Unwritten Rules at Work

    Since birth, we have been guided by a set of social norms. Which effectively are unwritten rules that we live by. These unwritten rules guide how we live and determine how people…

  • Toxic Employees

    Toxic Employees

    Toxic employees can be as bad if not worse than a bad manager or even inept leadership. Toxic employees are typically overconfident and selfish and generally understand how to walk the fine…

  • Gaslighting at Work

    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…

  • What is Work Ethic

    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.…

  • How to Motivate unmotivated Employees

    How to Motivate unmotivated Employees

    How to Motivate unmotivated Employees follows very closely to employee engagement which I have written about before. Engagement is about having a sense of purpose, ownership, and commitment to the company. Motivation,…

  • Employee Re-Engagement

    Employee Re-Engagement

    Employee re-engagement (make them happy) is not difficult once you recognise it is required. As a director, you may need to re-organise management because we all know that “People leave managers, not…

  • Bad Management and Office Assassins – A reason to be self-employed

    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…

  • Employee Engagement – Another reason to be self-employed.

    Employee Engagement – Another reason to be self-employed.

    So, I decided this week to do an article on employee engagement as a part 2 article to “Bad Management and Office Assassins.” If you ask a lot of managers how they…