Blog - Strategic Leadership

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...

12 Aug

The Power of Listening in Helping People Change

By Kate Tuck
In Leadership

The Power of Listening in Helping People Change - Giving performance feedback is one of the most common ways managers help their subordinates learn and improve. Yet, research revealed that feedback could actually hurt performance: More than 20 years ago, one of us (Kluger) analysed 607 experiments on feedback effectiveness...

05 Aug

Do You Think HR is Effective?

By Kate Tuck
In HR, Strategy

Do You Think HR is Effective? - Dave Ulrich stresses the importance of relationships over roles in his assessment of how HR deals with its own internal challenges. HR for HR means that HR professionals apply to their own function the knowledge and tools they apply to their organisations. This...

29 Jul

Future Of Leadership In The Fourth Industrial Revolution

By Kate Tuck
In Leadership

The Future Of Leadership In The Fourth Industrial Revolution - Digitisation has an impact on all organisations across various sectors or industries. In each case, the impact is a different one which makes it essential for companies to have a good understanding and view of what they face and how...

22 Jul

Top Rated CEO of 2019 Shares a Simple Formula for Leadership Success

By Kate Tuck
In Leadership

Everybody loves a good top 100 list. It could be the best cities to live in, the top restaurants, or in this case, the highest rated CEOs in America. I love Glassdoor's annual list of the Top CEOs because it's based on how employees of major corporations feel about their culture...