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...
Leadership, Productivity, Purpose
It’s a dilemma – should you be proud to see your article republished in Smart Company, or dismayed??? OK then, perhaps a bit of both; it’s just that feeling both at the same time is a bit weird. Unfortunately the article, first published towards the beginning of the...
Coaching, Gender diversity, Inclusion, Increasing effectiveness, Influence, Job Satisfaction, Leadership, Power, Productivity
…..and why we need to increase our comfort with reasonable doubt and modesty. Our fascination with Imposter Phenomenon (IP) seems to be part of our preoccupation with confidence as a critical component of leadership. That’s what makes it doubly challenging for...
Increasing effectiveness, Job Satisfaction, Leadership, Productivity
Do you know how many of your leaders are getting up at 4am in order to ‘get their work done’ before the day’s meeting frenzy begins? It’s likely to be more than you think. Or perhaps not – perhaps you’re also trying this tactic to get on top of your meeting overload?...
Culture, Leadership, Motivation, Productivity
Smart people endure boring meetings. Why? Meetings are pretty useful for collaborative work, but they are rife with problems. Despite this, we have too many, suffer through boring ones, and need therapy after excruciating ones. We get caught too often in a groundhog...