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How to Become a Lousy Leader – Lesson 2
Most people I know have experienced some form of “Bullying” at work. Sometimes it’s subtle; while at other times it’s there for all to see. When you are on the receiving end, it’s very unpleasant. Bullying in the workplace reflects poor leadership. Great leaders motivate and help people achieve their potential. They certainly don’t engage…
Read MoreThe secret to higher performance
As a leader you influence the performance of the people you work with – both positively and negatively. When I reflect on the different bosses that I had during my own career, I have no doubt that some people managed to get more consistent high level performance from me than others. So what’s the secret…
Read MoreWhy do the best teams have a lot of conflict?
I’m always bemused by the negativity associated with conflict. Recently I was talking to a friend who is a senior manager about how important it was for organisations to be comfortable with conflict. His immediate response was “oh that sounds interesting, but we don’t have much conflict around here”. In his mind, conflict was bad.…
Read More“Team Building” isn’t sufficient
In the run up to the 2013 Federal Election the Government was beset with a leadership problem that, from an outsider’s viewpoint, was about choosing between a cohesive Cabinet team with an unpopular leader and a possibly dysfunctional Cabinet team with a popular leader. In politics, popular leaders are an electoral asset, while internal process…
Read MoreTen Practices of High Performing Leaders
Becoming a high performing leader is not easy. It’s like competing in a race without a finish line. I hope this blog will provide you with some useful insights as you run the leadership race. I was at a netball game recently, when one of the other Dads asked me a hard, double-barreled question: “What…
Read MoreHow to Become a Lousy Leader – Lesson 1
My colleague, Dr John Waters, recalls one of his early learning experiences: “Our Divisional Head, Bryan, was a good person to know socially and acquaintances would often refer to him as ‘a real gentleman’, reflecting his sober, maybe old-fashioned set of personal values. He had a talented group of senior managers who he would proudly…
Read MoreWhat kind of team do you have?
The pioneering management thinker, the late Peter Drucker, recommended a pragmatic approach to team building that started with asking the question, ‘what kind of team?’ His advice was to remember that most human work is and always has been carried out in teams, and so we are not dealing with a new phenomenon. With any…
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