by Kerry Dawkins | Jun 9, 2014 | Archive, Leadership, Organisational Development
The world of work provides us with many choices. We can choose our employer and the duration that we want to work for that employer. We can choose to join the entrepreneurial trend and be our own boss. As flexible work arrangements become more common, we can choose...
by Raymond de Villiers | May 8, 2014 | Leadership, Organisational Development
Companies and individuals around the world spend billions on courses, books, conferences, and symposiums to develop leadership skills. One thing every single person is though is a follower – everyone is responsible to someone else, or a group of others. Even when we...
by Keith Coats | May 8, 2014 | Archive, Leadership, Organisational Development
The best of strategies can be thwarted and undone by the presence of an enemy within the ranks. Even worse, an enemy within can sow the seeds that result in destruction and ultimate annihilation. As a company, you may well have an enemy within. Much of our time as...
by Graeme Codrington | May 6, 2014 | Archive, Leadership, Organisational Development
“So, you’re like ‘Step Zero’ then, are you?” We were doing some work a few years ago with the consulting arm of one of the Big Four accounting firms, and one of their team was trying to find a way to position our involvement with a...
by Keith Coats | Apr 29, 2014 | Leadership, Organisational Development
In response to a client’s need to assist team leaders grasp and engage with some required internal change an old story was retold. The underpinning framework guiding the work that was done in Hong Kong and Singapore was that of Spencer Johnson’s ‘Who Moved My Cheese?’...
by Keith Coats | Apr 24, 2014 | Archive, Leadership, Organisational Development
Something had to stop Manchester United from continuing their dominant ways and it came from what many thought would be the most likely direction: when it came time to change the leader (manager). We all knew that Sir Alex Ferguson (SAF) couldn’t go on forever,...
