Blog - Page 7 of 16 - Strategic Leadership

09 Sep

How To Have A Successful Career Without Selling Your Soul

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

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

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...

05 Aug

Do You Think HR is Effective?

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

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

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...

08 Jul

Why Don’t More UK Businesses Think in the Billions

In Business, Chris Atkinson, Culture

British businesses have a habit of building quick and selling fast, with many of the global powerhouses hailing from Germany and the USA. Why is this? And why don’t British firms often build for the long-term? Why do so few UK businesses expand to become global giants? Are there structural...

24 Jun

Creating Conscious Culture through Conscious Leadership

In Leadership

Creating Conscious Culture through Conscious Leadership - Jim Barnett is CEO of Glint, which enables real-time employee engagement data to provide leaders with actionable insights into the health of their organisations. As an accomplished serial entrepreneur, avid practitioner of Vipassana meditation and proponent of conscious leadership, we asked Jim about...

17 Jun

Building A Company Culture Is Not About Writing Values On A Wall

In Leadership, Vision & Purpose

Building A Company Culture Is Not About Writing Values On A Wall - Take a walk around the area known as London’s Silicon Roundabout, and you will easily see from the street into the windows of offices and co-working spaces. Through these windows, can often be seen the typical...

10 Jun

If You Think Leadership Doesn’t Matter, Look At Boeing

In Leadership

If You Think Leadership Doesn't Matter, Look At Boeing - Last week, following the second fatal crash of one of its new 737 Max 8s in less than six months, Boeing Co. shares plummeted by 12 percent, destroying more than $28 billion in shareholder value. It was Boeing’s biggest loss...