Kate Tuck, Author at Strategic Leadership

11 Feb

Turnaround Strategies For Dysfunctional Teams

By Kate Tuck
In Leadership

Turnaround Strategies For Dysfunctional Teams - Incoming executives may inherit less-than-effective leadership teams when they take over. Three common dysfunctions include collective delegation upward in an attempt to avoid accountability, low collective energy, and organisation silos. Some turnaround strategies for new executives to deal with dysfunctional teams and boost...

04 Feb

New Leadership Competencies For VUCA

By Kate Tuck
In Leadership, VUCA

The annual Global Peter Drucker Forum has become the management conference of the year. It is dubbed the “Davos” of Management Conferences and features the “Who’s Who” of management thinkers. It is a result of Richard Straub’s conviction and tireless efforts to continue the legacy of Peter Drucker (1909-2005)....

21 Dec

Transparency Is Key to Building Trust in Business

By Kate Tuck
In Business, Trust

Transparency Is Key to Building Trust in Business - When an engine exploded on Qantas flight QF32 on Nov. 4, 2010, endangering the lives of 469 passengers and crew, the plane’s captain, Richard de Crespigny, didn’t curse, panic, or pray. Instead, he relied on the supreme trust he had...

17 Dec

Why Warmth Is the Underappreciated Skill Leaders Need

By Kate Tuck
In Leadership

Why Warmth Is the Underappreciated Skill Leaders Need When it comes to success in leadership, there has never been just one playbook. Some leaders are extroverts, natural mentors, and charismatic speakers; others prefer to lead by example and take a more hands-off approach. There is, however, one simple fact that leaders...

10 Dec

A Brilliant Lesson in Emotional Understanding from Microsoft’s CEO

By Kate Tuck
In Leadership

Companies are encouraged to get ever-larger, yet is there really much evidence that big is often better? Big certainly makes a few people richer, but that's not quite the same thing. For years, indeed, Microsoft was famous for using its size to bully the reluctant into using the often...

03 Dec

Four Ways CEOs Can Lead With Empathy

By Kate Tuck
In CEO, Leadership

Many years ago, I was elected president of our company’s field leadership association. Brimming with new ideas about how to make our company better, I attended a strategic planning meeting between field officers and company executives and felt my innovative contributions were dazzling. On the drive home I asked...

26 Nov

The Big Lies of Strategy

By Kate Tuck
In Strategy

The Big Lies of Strategy by Roger L. Martin - You don’t need a 100-page strategic plan. Strategy is actually about making five specific choices. - THOSE WHO KNOW ME WELL know that I have a love/hate relationship with all things strategic. On the one hand, I hate ‘strategic planning’...

19 Nov

The Collapse of Strategy and Its Implications

By Kate Tuck
In Strategy

The Collapse of Strategy and Its Implications - “Strategy” might be one of the most elemental parts of a business. And the most misunderstood. Perpetuating the problem is the proliferation of corporate strategy groups and “strategy” job titles that involve very little strategy in the economic sense of the term...

05 Nov

9 Types of People Who Never Succeed at Work

By Kate Tuck
In Personal Development

9 Types of People Who Never Succeed at Work - Social skills are becoming more critical than experience and knowledge for success in the workplace. Harvard economist David Deming studied workplace tasks from 1980 to the present day and found tasks that emphasise social skills grew by a whopping...

29 Oct

Don’t Just Tell Employees Changes Are Coming – Explain Why

By Kate Tuck
In Leadership, Vision & Purpose

Employees around the world are reporting that big organisational changes are affecting their jobs. From leadership transitions and restructurings, to mergers and acquisitions, to regulatory changes, there seems to be constant unrest in the workforce. But according to one survey of more than half a million U.S. employees, almost one-third don’t understand...