Culture Archives - Strategic Leadership

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,...

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...

22 Oct

Why Vulnerability is Essential to Becoming a Great Leader

In Leadership

It's not fear that gets in the way of daring leadership. It's our armour. I’ve spent twenty years studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy, and I recently completed a seven-year study on brave leadership that was built around the following driving question: What, if anything, about the way people are...

10 Sep

Are You Killing Your Career By Avoiding Conflict?

In Conflict, Leadership, Personal Development

How Your Brain Handles Conflict - Many of us have been socialised or learned as adults that conflict is “bad” and in order to succeed, we should appear optimistic and positive at all times. Yet while this avoidance of conflict leads to superficial harmony, it denies what is really...

02 Aug

The Importance of Internal Consultancy

In Business, Chris Atkinson, Communication, Culture

Could high quality internal consultancy be a short cut to developing a powerful organisational culture?

23 Apr

The biggest problem in your company no one wants to talk about – The Trust Gap

In Culture

Chris Willis explores the biggest problem in your company that no one wants to talk about - The Trust Gap - Maybe Machiavelli was right.... The thought crept into my head as I sat at my tiny desk overlooking Wall Street. It was a bright fall afternoon, but doubt and the...

28 Feb

The Most Humbling Lessons Of Leadership

In Leadership

“I’ve learned that leadership is key to culture,” says Jill. “Our lives are a blank canvas — never think that you have it all figured out. We have to remain authentic, because that’s how we learn.”

14 Feb

Strategy, Culture and Values

In Culture, Leadership, Strategy

How to Create an Environment of Continuous Change, Learning and Improvement - February is traditionally a time when our new year’s resolutions begin to lose momentum, and we start to slip back into our original habits. Change is hard, after all. The same is often true in business – in...

16 Jan

Structure Follows Strategy – But May Not Look Like You Imagined

In Strategy, Structure & Processes

In the world of structural design, one size does not fit all. It pays massive dividends to get the structure fit for the purpose and strategy of your very specific business. In this article, John Sutherland discusses the seven structural archetypes and the six guidelines for structural design to make organisations...