“Isn’t it just the human condition?” my friend remarked. We were discussing the difficulty of getting organizations to understand the problems they face and our reluctance as leaders to accept that we …
What can we learn from a stalled career?
Carol still applies for senior jobs that come up, but she’s lost count of the interviews she’s been to over the years only to be disappointed. She doesn’t tell her family anymore when she’s in the …
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Are you stuck in other people’s comfort zones?
To grow, we need to step out of our comfort zone; to accept we don't know everything; to take a risk. We're familiar with that. But had it occurred to you that sometimes we may hold back because our …
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“Soft skills” are an optional extra, right?
The silence in the room is profound. Joe sits out front with the coach who’s running the workshop. No-one moves as Joe processes the question he’s just been asked; the question that will resolve the …
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Collaboration – Everyone’s talking about it but do we have the bandwidth?
Talk of collaboration is everywhere. We recognize that we need to work together more, even in a competitive world setting us against each other if we allow scarcity to be our driver. How well do we …
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He might as well have said they prefer to underperform
"We're an organization that doesn't like to listen to other organizations," he said, also seeming to imply that they'd no intention of changing. That would be OK if they knew everything they needed to …
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