Kate Tuck, Author at Strategic Leadership

28 Oct

Google Released Research On What Makes a Good Boss

By Kate Tuck
In Leadership

Google Released Research On What Makes a Good Boss – Do you agree? Some say the best kind of boss is one who leaves you alone – and new research released by Google shows that it’s kind of true. For over a decade, researchers at the tech giant have...

21 Oct

Getting Uncomfortable on Purpose

By Kate Tuck
In Leadership, Personal Development

Getting Uncomfortable on Purpose Thinking about purpose in business was once a provocative and urgent activity. A seminal HBR article from 1994 states, “In most corporations today, people no longer know—or even care—what or why their companies are,” and argues that “strategies can engender strong, enduring emotional attachments only when they are...

14 Oct

To Prepare for Automation, Stay Curious and Don’t Stop Learning

By Kate Tuck
In Learning

To Prepare for Automation, Stay Curious and Don’t Stop Learning Earlier this year, President Trump signed an executive order for the “American AI Initiative,” to guide AI developments and investments in the following areas: research and development, ethical standards, automation, and international outreach. This initiative is indicative of the changing times, and...

07 Oct

Mindset – The psychological challenge of business growth

By Kate Tuck
In Business

Mindset - The psychological challenge of business growth - When a business changes faster than employees’ thinking there is a problem! Individuals’ assumptions, priorities and expectations become obsolete - mindset becomes a big obstacle to change and growth. Employees continue do a great job, but in some respects its yesterday’s...

23 Sep

Jack Ma’s Leadership Approach

By Kate Tuck
In Chris Atkinson, Leadership

Jack Ma's Leadership Approach by Chris Atkinson - At his retirement party, Jack Ma stepped onstage to celebrate Alibaba’s 20th anniversary looking every inch the rock star complete with a leather jacket, shades, guitar, and jewellery. He sang and spoke to an emotional crowd in Hangzhou, China. It's fair to...

16 Sep

Rest – Investing Time to Become a Better Leader

By Kate Tuck
In Leadership

Recently, one of the team members at the John Maxwell Company shared an interesting struggle in his life: he’s forgotten how to rest. Some of the team was gathered for lunch and he volunteered his thoughts as everyone was talking.

09 Sep

How To Have A Successful Career Without Selling Your Soul

By Kate Tuck
In Personal Development

How To Have A Successful Career Without Selling Your Soul - Career dissatisfaction is a malaise that affects a majority of the U.S. workforce. Less than half of American workers are satisfied with their jobs, and only 32% of employees are engaged. Even worse, 16% of millennials are actively disengaged,...

02 Sep

Training Employees to be the Eyes and Ears of the Company

By Kate Tuck
In HR, Training

The statistics about workplace violence are alarming: Nearly two million Americans are victims of workplace violence each year — yet a quarter of violent incidents at work go unreported, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

26 Aug

Making Your Strategy More Agile? Consider These Risks

By Kate Tuck
In Strategy

Making Your Strategy More Agile? Consider These Risks - It is frequently argued that strategy’s holy grail—the pursuit of sustained competitive advantage—is futile in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world. Instead, so the argument goes, organisations should focus on agile strategy, thereby realising a dynamic and continuous stream of short-term advantages. But is...

19 Aug

How to Excel at Both Strategy and Execution

By Kate Tuck
In Strategy

How to Excel at Both Strategy and Execution - For decades, we’ve often thought of leadership profiles in unique buckets—two popular varieties were the “visionaries”, who embrace strategy and think about amazing things to do, and the “operators”, who get stuff done. We intuitively knew that there must be...