by Kate Mercer | Jan 9, 2025 | Leadership
Specialists – engineers, doctors, teachers, architects etc – often find themselves promoted not just for their technical skill but because they’ve become indispensable voices in their field. But what happens when climbing the ladder shifts the job away...
by Kate Mercer | Jan 9, 2025 | Organisation Culture
One of the biggest surprises for employees (and sometimes even managers) in a scaling organisation is how promotions actually work—or rather, how they should work. Too often, people fall into one of two flawed assumptions: “They’re an amazing...
by Kate Mercer | Jan 9, 2025 | Leadership, Organisation Culture
Ever feel like your job is just putting out fires? “They all want pay rises, but we’re not making enough money.” “Nobody documents anything—we’re flying blind.” “I only hear about problems when they’ve become emergencies.”...
by Kate Mercer | Jan 9, 2025 | Organisation Culture
There is a point, when human beings come together, that a group of individuals becomes an organisation. Like a hive of bees, a group of people is an organism. And organisms have rules of their own which, operating at their best, override a narrow focus on individual...
by Kate Mercer | Sep 17, 2024 | Leadership, Organisation Culture
What exactly is this employee ownership thing, then? Simply speaking, EO is a form of exit strategy for a founder who wants to extract value from their business before finally leaving to retire or to do other projects. The usual way to achieve this is a commercial...
