by Amanda Baines | Nov 28, 2015 | Leadership
For your organisation to be a success you need good managers, and too often this is left to chance. Teams and individuals who are badly managed are at best disengaged and at worst can actually sabotage your business. Your rising stars leave to go to work for your...
by Amanda Baines | Aug 30, 2015 | Organisation Culture
These are some critical underlying drivers of sustainable business success: Performance: Underperformance is not tolerated People never make excuses for underperformance We don’t waste time doing irrelevant things The results of the business are in line with its...
by Amanda Baines | Aug 23, 2015 | Leadership
We’ve discussed before about creating disciplines for becoming ever more authentic and completely yourself. Why then would you ever make a mistake again? Because we all fall short of ideal behaviour, and forget to choose to be great and behave well on a daily...
by Amanda Baines | Aug 12, 2015 | Leadership
The next time you’re juggling options – which friend to see, which house to buy, which career to pursue – consider the action of Xiang Yu, a Chinese general who took his troops across the Yangtze River into enemy territory and performed an experiment in...
by Kate Mercer | Jul 7, 2015 | Leadership
It’s rare that a month goes by without yet another high-profile leader being caught in the media spotlight and taking a walk of shame. These talented leaders were highly successful in their respective fields and at the peak of their careers. This makes their...