Ineffective leaders believe wrong things about themselves, others, situations, and organisations.
Just over 20 years ago I was sat in my office talking to a consultant who was helping me with my first real management job. Midst in our conversation, a coworker of mine entered the office to provide me with information she though was of importance. We exchanged a...
Building Winning Capabilities – A Strategic Positioning Opportunity for HR
Sometimes people ask me “What is the purpose of HR?”. That’s an easy question – HR is a business function that leads the people aspects of the enterprise to create organisational capability for competitive advantage. However, when it comes...
How does HR make a business impact? By ensuring the organisation is aligned to execute the strategic decisions!
When HR takes primary responsibility for leading organisational effectiveness (Lawler, 2014) it creates a means of delivering the strategy and is a source of sizeable and durable competitive advantage(McKinsey 2012).
I know as much about change, turbulence and failure as I do about success. I did not start my career aspiring to run a steel company, nor did I plan to be a rather relentless breaker of barriers in business and in the community at large. What I have...
What is self-awareness and why should leaders care?
“The point is not to become a leader. The point is to become yourself, and to use yourself completely – all your gifts, skills and energies – to make your vision manifest. You must withhold nothing. You must in sum, become the...
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