Category: Insight Edge

We ask IML Members a few tricky questions about themselves and their businesses. BY KIMBERLEY HARVEY WHAT’S ONE THING YOU’D LIKE OTHER IML MEMBERS TO KNOW ABOUT YOU OR YOUR BUSINESS? I have been involved in IT for over 20 years. The move to FIS (the world’s largest global provider dedicated to banking and […]

DiSC is a personal assessment tool based on the work of Dr William Marston, an American psychologist and author who, in other news, created the character Wonder Woman, and the first polygraph machine. Marston’s book “Emotions of Normal People” was published in 1928. In it Marston presented research into how a person’s will and sense […]

Humans are used to being the smartest tool in the shed, but this is looking less and less like something we can continue to take for granted. Smart computers, driverless cars and 3d printing combine with connectivity, machine learning and bio-engineering to create a surge of innovation in capacity, capability and intelligence that is already […]

On emotional intelligence Models and Measures of Emotional Intelligence. Dr Benjamin Palmer. (Genos International) The dark side of emotional intelligence. (The Atlantic) Dr Ben Palmer talks about Emotional Intelligence. (Youtube) Why Leaders lack emotional intelligence. (Inc.com) Emotional intelligence apps MEIT (mobile emotional intelligence test) MEIT performs an emotional intelligence test, evaluating how good we are at perceiving how […]

Daniel Goleman, Author, Emotional Intelligence You have a job to do, a team to lead. How you go about it, and how you manage your colleagues as you do, depends not only on how you feel, but how aware you are of your own state of mind, and of what’s going on for those around […]

360-degree feedback is systematically collecting opinions about a person’s performance from a range of sources, including peers, direct reports, the boss – even from people outside the organisation like customers or suppliers. The goal is to create a panorama of how the person is perceived by others, a map of perceived strengths and weaknesses that […]

Commentators from the New York Times to your local community Facebook page are arguing that there is a crisis of leadership across politics, society and around the wicked problems that face the world, like climate change and the growing terror threat. There appears to be a loss of confidence in leaders globally. But does that mean […]

There is a dark side of the diamond trade, for people who mine the gems, for the countries in which they are mined, and for societies impacted by the criminal activities of those who wish to hide where their wealth comes from, and where it is spent. This is the problem that Leanne Kemp identified and decided to tackle […]

While we were researching leadership impact for this month’s Insight Edge we found these talks, papers and opinion pieces that are too good not to share. BY KIRSTEN LEES Leadership impact The impact of a good leader and good leadership in society. (Industry Leaders Magazine) The rise of social entrepreneurship suggests a possible future for […]

Think of the global financial crisis, or even the Deep Blue Sea disaster. For most of us they were a bolt from the blue – enormous disasters with dramatic lasting consequences. But were they really a surprise? When things go wrong, particularly on a grand scale, there’s always a clutch of experts ready to declare, […]