In the past few months I’ve had similar conversations – albeit with different specifics – with three business founders. Each of these discussions touched on the instances whereby there is a culture of staff who seemingly resent having to do extra work or push back when the flexibility of their
“Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.” – Peter Drucker A while ago, I read an article on leadership habits by Tamnay Vora, who said: “Managers are linchpins who have
Some years ago – before remote working was a standard ‘thing’ – one of my co-workers used to leave voice messages on Slack and Whatsapp. No one really liked it, and it became a bit of a running joke (albeit one she was aware of). But she persisted. As trends
“It’s not my responsibility” I spotted a graphic on LinkedIn recently which talked about personal responsibility (it was similar to the first image below). It’s premise was around healthy boundary setting. The problem was that the creator of the graphic had posted it into a LinkedIn group around leadership, and
Anyone else feel like a bit of their childhood has gone forever? Have you ever watched a Disney scene and got a sense of déjà vu? Well it turns out that isn’t suprising, because Disney has recycled scenes from loads of their movies. Once you’ve seen the sequences side-by-side, you’ll
Whilst working with a newly promoted leader last week he was wondering what type of leader he ‘should’ be. He’d clearly got a solid idea about what leadership is and what ‘good’ looks like, but he wasn’t clear about his own style and where to leverage his strengths. In truth,
