Leadership, Performance, Productivity, Wellbeing
We’re heading into the final stage of this year, and it’s likely to be the toughest of the year. (Not to dishearten you, but I had it on the good advice of a 12 year old who explained to his father that this final school term was by far the longest and it was...
Leadership, Performance, Productivity, Wellbeing
I’ve been writing a lot about why we need to pay better attention to perfectionism, workload, stress and burnout and it’s not just to be good leaders and corporate citizens (although that would be enough!), it’s also to get better outcomes. Too much drive, too much...
Job Satisfaction, Leadership, Performance, Productivity
We know it doesn’t work. Yet that hasn’t stopped open plan offices from thriving. Even if people, and good ideas, don’t thrive in them. DavidBrooks in his The New York Times article ‘The Immortal Awfulness of Open Plan Workplaces’ points out the absurdity of...
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, Gender diversity, Leadership, Performance
As I looked around the boardroom table, I noticed once again the lack of diversity in the leaders assembled. It isn’t that those present are not talented: they are. It’s not that they’re not well-intentioned: they are. It’s just that affinity bias remains...