Jill Pett: Being human – why business leaders need to show the human touch
One of your team suffers a family bereavement, illness, or is going through tough times in their personal life. How do you respond? Call in HR, ignore the situation or take time to speak to the employee? Unfortunately many business leaders are often cautious about...
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...
