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People Management style favouring Emotional Intelligence, decision fairness, information sharing, outcome concern, integrity, credibility, value in differences, lifelong learning, and developing people
Edward de Bono’s ideas are central to my cognitive development over the past decade, a shift away from ‘traditional’ (vertical) to parallel and lateral thinking – fundamental to an ethos that continues to guide my decision-making today. His ideas reinforced my lifelong notion that operacy …
In This Morning Routine will Save You 20+ Hours Per Week, Benjamin Hardy raises two important commercial concerns: The Myth of the 8 Hour Workday and Quality Vs Quantity. Knowledge-workers sitting behind desks for eight hours, Monday to Friday, is an archaic tradition, absurd for …
Since exploiting opportunity requires balancing priorities, exciting, dynamic and thriving enterprises overturn commercial norms. Destabilising the equilibrium is easy, rewarding or lucrative. Gut instinct plays decision-maker. Some opportunities tick every checkbox, yet gut instinct rejects them. Conversely, forward-thinkers embrace other dire-looking opportunities that offer gut …
Service levels decline, waste replaces value, operational costs increase, and productivity is suboptimal when organisations lacks adaptive leadership, performance improvement or operational-level agreements. Workforces dissolve into loose, shapeless divisions without the glue that forms colleagues and teams into effective, lean value-adding streams. Agreements are often …
Having been ‘caned’ at least once per week in school for ‘misbehaviour’ (i.e. a failure to comply with inappropriate, draconian relics from a Dickensian dystopia), the notion of corporal punishment as a deterrent is laughable. And yet, hierarchies and micromanagers continue to punish employees through …
