Culture, Leadership, Motivation
Quite a few of my recent blogs have focused on the issue of confidence and how problematic certain ways of framing confidence are when it comes to leadership. In particular, how it skews the leadership pool and then backfires on us. For those of you asking yourself...
Culture, Imposter Syndrome, Inclusion, Leadership
Our preoccupation with impostor syndrome is giving rise to a strange paradox. As Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic and Emma Vehviläinen eloquently point out in their recent Fast Company article, highly competent people who experience imposter feelings may underperform when...
Culture, Imposter Syndrome, Inclusion, Leadership
In an earlier blog I extolled the virtues of helping women to fit and feel valued, identifying eight ways that organisations could stop the prevalent under-estimating of women’s talent and capability for leadership and non-traditional roles. The question of fit and...
Culture, Leadership, Motivation
In Groysberg’s and Abrahams’ model of motivation, belonging is met by: Making employees feel part of the team Being people-oriented Caring about people on a personal level There’s still a debate going on about whether hybrid work supports or interferes with...
Culture, Job Satisfaction, Leadership, Performance
In FlexAbility, I write about the continuing challenges of adopting flexible work practices: at the root of the challenges are leaders who are ambitious, competitive and overconfident. These are the leaders chasing continuous growth whatever the cost, seeking ever...
Career Acceleration, Culture, Inclusion, Leadership, Purpose
With the labour market in free-fall and organisations out-paying each other by ridiculous amounts, Elena decided to take a punt on finding an organisation and a boss with whom she felt a better sense of fit. It wasn’t that her current job was unfulfilling; she...