In the deep end – getting to grips with a bigger leadership job at high speed
We used to talk about the speed of change, but the last two years have been off the charts for many industries and organisations. The impact of the pandemic led to urgent setting up of whole new work systems and even whole new organisations in areas like health and mass reductions in other sectors like
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Whatever you do, don’t go back to ‘normal’
Our longing for ‘getting back to normal’ can blind us to the new and the better. That longing is understandable. We want to be able to go to the beach. We want to be able to go to a café and the pub. We want the uncertainty to stop. At the same time, in my
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When you can’t tell them
Have you ever caught yourself doing waffly corporate speak? Maybe something like this.. “As we strategically pivot to generate greater integration there may be, in the fulness of time, important adaptions that will need to be made to ensure future viability going forward.” Why do leaders talk like this? Is it some kind of brain
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