Day: January 25, 2017
Glass cliffs and ceilings: Statistics, gender balance, market failure, and loss of top talent
Sometimes, though I hate driving, my mind turns to randomly interesting areas. Today, it was gender balance – and I was reflecting on how much of the development work that I’ve done with senior teams puts me in a room full of men. When my classes are full of 50 something senior leaders, it will […]
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Change Strategy: Introduction (Science of Org Change)
A day late and a dollar short As a consultant frequently called-in mid-project when change is going badly, I am asked to supply tactical means of resolving people and culture problems. As with aid workers surveying a post-hurricane scene, I find political conflicts, unhappy stakeholders, culture clashes, dysfunctional project teams, skills issues, sponsorship troubles, delays […]
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Leadership and the body: The undiscovered frontier
The following is excerpted from the full article which is available to community members for free download using the link at the bottom of this page. Further articles from the Leadership White Paper series are coming soon. The next step for leadership? In bygone times, developing leaders focused on bettering their thinking: solving strategic problems […]
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Leadership in the Jungle
“These high-ROI innovations mean the program pays for itself many times over. The elegance of its design means that strong financial returns, talent development and the creation of social value coexist. The mutual reinforcement and harmony between these goals is precisely the bank’s ambition — for frequently these are seen as tradeoffs: do-good or make […]
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