by Kate Mercer | Jun 8, 2015 | Team Development
Following on from our post last week on authentic leadership, here’s a great guest blog by Brian Bacon from Brian Bacon on Leadership: Anne Frank chronicled in her diary in 1943, “The good news is that you really don’t know how great you can be, how...
by Kate Mercer | Jun 7, 2015 | Leadership, Organisation Culture
We came across this recent article by Jose-Pedro Martinez at Blue Steps on implementing successful change management through communication and which is worth posting: Have you ever been a part of a company’s failed attempt to boost quality, merge with another company,...
by Kate Mercer | Jun 5, 2015 | Leadership
An article in the Harvard Business Review entitled ‘Authentic Leadership Can Be Bad Leadership’ made the point that you can use authenticity as an excuse for all kinds of bad behaviour, based on your ‘lower’ rather than your higher self! This is so true. Many years...
by Kate Mercer | May 31, 2015 | Leadership
A mindset has the following characteristics: It’s a strongly held belief or conviction. It really feels true to the person with the mindset. The person identifies with, or is attached to the mindset. If you disagree with the mindset, you often trigger negativity...
by Kate Mercer | May 27, 2015 | Organisation Culture
On Monday we talked about the origins of the Balanced Scorecard approach, the strategy performance management tool first introduced by Kaplan and Norton in the mid-90s. In today’s post, we’re focusing on the perspectives and implementation of that approach. A Balanced...