It’s as if it was meant to be. David Cameron resigns triggering a by-election. Sam Allardyce loses his job (sorry – my mistake – consciously uncouples by mutual agreement). The Witney selection committee is surely not required. Now I’m going to hold...
I recently met a woman whose strapline might well be ‘it’s a girls’ world’; it was certainly a phrase she used a lot, although in fairness to her, I should point out normally in the context of her daughters. However recent political events have...
For a team and organisational performance professional , Labour’s current challenges are not limited to politics and personalities; other barriers to organisational effectiveness are equally significant. The ultimate measure of...
Technology in the 21st century means that the use of data for decision-making, which in business, used to be the preserve of finance and possibly marketing, is now a critical tool in areas previously seen as more qualitative, such...
I can’t claim to be the world’s biggest football fan but I can’t help returning to it in blogs, since it provides such a rich seam of lessons for teams and organisations, generally in how not to do things. Manchester United (Man Utd), a club with a...
The internet and social media have transformed accessibility of information shifting the balance of power in many situations where a power gradient was predicated on knowledge asymmetry. Consumers are now better informed with more options than ever...
People sit on senior leadership teams (SLTs) ‘wearing 2 hats’ simultaneously. On the one hand, they are invariably the ‘heads of something’. Each is the senior person representing a business unit or support function. However they are simultaneously...
I presented some time ago at an event for the League Managers Association (football for the non-sporty types and soccer for the non-native speakers in the US) at which I was sat next to Gordon Strachan (Scotland Manager for the English…). Now in...
If in the widest sense, leadership is something to do with others choosing to follow you, then it seems self-evident to me that one quality which is almost a pre-requisite for leaders is authenticity – you have to stand for something, and your...
