John Ainley: Your organisation is a shadow of you
‘You must be the change you want to see in the world’ said Gandhi and it’s a message that many CEOs should consider when they think about how their own organisations effectively become shadows of themselves. What that means is a leader is viewed as the embodiment of a...
Becky Falkingham: A happy leader is a good leader: how happy are you?
To be an effective and well respected leader it follows that you need to be happy in your work. But how can you measure such an ethereal quality like happiness? “Ask yourself whether you are happy,” wrote the English philosopher John Stuart Mill, “and you cease to be...
John Ainley: No one enjoys working for a ‘meddling’ CEO
One question I’m often asked by CEOs I work with is, ‘how do I know when is the right time to intervene and when is the right time to let people simply get on with the job?’ At the heart of this issue is understanding how to best develop the people that work for you...
