Management and Leadership Articles

We need a leadership role model example to learn from and look up to. I’ve just read an article on a Gallup poll entitled, ‘Why great managers are so rare.’ The poll reports 80% failure rate in selecting the right managers and says the cost to companies is billions of dollars per year. It concludes that few managers have the talent to achieve excellence.

This is the third of three blogs on creating strategy and implementing change. The first was a repeat of a 2014 blog called ‘Common management mistakes in implementing change’, the second described ‘Six lessons in introducing organisational change in non-profits’. In...

A couple of years ago I posted a blog called ‘Common management mistakes in implementing change’. I’ve made a link to that one if you’d like a refresher. I’ve been involved this year at different stages of quite a few change processes. I reflected back on those...

I’ve been running quite a lot of leadership programmes this year. During them, participants and I have explored many of the usual topics: ‘How does leadership differentiate from management?’ How can you ignite the full collective intelligence of your team and your...