Kate Tuck, Author at Strategic Leadership

13 Apr

3 Equations for a Happy Life, Even During a Pandemic

In Personal Development

It seems strange to launch a column on happiness during a pandemic. The timing is, well, awkward, isn’t it? Maybe not. We’re stuck at home; our lives on COVID time have slowed to a near halt. This creates all sorts of obvious inconveniences, of course. But in the involuntary quiet,...

06 Apr

4 Behaviours That Help Leaders Manage a Crisis

In Leadership

4 Behaviours That Help Leaders Manage a Crisis - The roles and responsibilities of business leaders have dramatically changed in the past few weeks. Before COVID-19, CEOs and other executives in high-growth companies were focused on fostering innovation, driving revenue, and gaining market share. Today, many of those same...

16 Mar

Crisis Management: The Overlooked Leadership Skill

In Leadership, VUCA

Crisis Management: The Overlooked Leadership Skill | Here are five ways to rise up to the challenge of leading the troops while things are falling apart. No one thinks much about a certain leadership quality — until the you-know-what hits the fan. The quality I’m referring to is crisis management. Thankfully,...

09 Mar

How to Lead Remote Teams

In Leadership, Team

How to Lead Remote Teams by Mike Desjardins The very first thing you need to know is, don’t panic: leading remote teams isn’t as difficult as you might think – here are just some things you need to keep in mind. ViRTUS has run virtually, with remote team members...

24 Feb

A Framework for Setting your Business up for Success in a Volatile World

In Structure & Processes, VUCA

A Framework for Setting your Business up for Success in a Volatile World - In a difficult environment, leaders need to resist the impulse to adopt a defensive pose. They must instead take actions that will position their organization for success. Uncertainty is like the weather. It’s always there, part...

17 Feb

Great Leaders & Organisations Advance a Just Cause

In Leadership, Vision & Purpose

Great Leaders & Organisations Advance a Just Cause

10 Feb

We Are Nowhere Near Stakeholder Capitalism

In Business, Culture

We Are Nowhere Near Stakeholder Capitalism - By Vijay Govindarajan and Anup Srivastava - If you read the headlines coming from the 2020 World Economic Forum at Davos, you may start believing that public corporations have fundamentally changed their raison d’être: from creating value for shareholders to benefiting society-at-large. In our opinion, this...

03 Feb

Leader’s Identity Mind Trap: Personal growth for the C-suite

In Business, Personal Development

The Leader’s Identity Mind Trap: Personal Growth for the C-suite - Millions of years of evolution have shaped our brains, with nature selecting for many adaptive and energy-saving, if imperfect, shortcuts. Some are easy to spot—for example, how we systematically fall for optical illusions and how our loss-aversion reflex...

25 Nov

The precise number of people to put on a team to maximise productivity

In Leadership, Team

This is the precise number of people to put on a team to maximise productivity - Tech exec and entrepreneur Mona Sabet explains the exact size of a group that can build and maintain empathy and shared purpose to bring out maximum performance. In 2012, I founded Hipower, a nonprofit...

18 Nov

Successful companies are passionate about fostering a community of leaders with new mindsets

In Leadership

Successful companies are passionate about fostering a community of leaders with new mindsets “Organisations need to completely rethink what they are about and what it means to lead. It’s not about one person or even those residing at the top anymore. In today’s world, everyone has to adopt a leadership...