In our article ‘Does culture really eat strategy for breakfast‘, we explored the idea that culture is a critical driver of organisational performance. For example, we mentioned that companies where the staff are fully engaged with the culture outperform their competition by at least 20%. ‘Having the ability to measure, define and improve culture has never […]
Intelligence takes many forms, some of us are mathematically intelligent, musically intelligent or maybe visually intelligent to name but a few. This is what makes us great mathematicians, composers or artists. In the world of leadership, there are two simple and easy ways to think of intelligence: Intellectual intelligence ~ IQ Emotional intelligence ~ EQ. […]
The literature on the subject of organisational culture and climate is awash with riveting research on the one hand, and bogged down with conflicting appraisals of what each term means on the other. In my experience, it doesn’t really matter what you call them – as long as you recognise the difference between the two […]
I have always been an advocate of seeking both sides of an argument or listening to all points of view before coming to a conclusion. In my early days though, I tended to allow personal biases and individual preferences to cloud my judgement and get in the way of sound reasoning – those days, however, […]
As with a lot of people, I like to switch to Netflix, sit back, relax and lose myself in a good film – it provides, for the most part, escapism for a few hours. One of my all-time favourites is the classic version of ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’ from 1969. There are many […]
I recall an episode that happened to me a number of years ago when I was fresh out of university having just completed my MSc in Occupational Psychology. I was being interviewed via skype for a position as development consultant with an organisation across the other side of the Atlantic. It seemed like a fairly […]
