Workforce cuts are often framed as a necessary, rational response to economic pressure. Leaders justify redundancies using language like efficiency, streamlining, and shareholder value. On spreadsheets, the logic appears sound: fewer people, lower costs, improved margins. But leadership is not exercised on spreadsheets alone. It is exercised in human systems, teams, cultures, relationships, and trust. …
Company Culture
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 react to us. In times gone by, most of these rules were called “good manners”. These would guide the behaviour of a lady…