Category: New In Leadership

The premise: 55,000 professionals from 90 countries, surveyed by the Korn Ferry Hay Group between 2011 and 2015, think that women have better emotional and social skills than men. These skills are essential for modern managers, so are women a better leadership bet than men in suits?     THE BUSINESS COACH Avril Henry AFAIM […]

Millennials are in demand with their skill set a popular choice for employers on a global scale. A generation motivated by passion more than money, their affordability, energy and eagerness to please makes them attractive to companies, reports global talent firm Mercer. Add in being digital savvy, having an entrepreneurial spirit and a commitment to […]

In the past couple of months, I’ve been privileged to interview a number of high-profile people about different aspects of global leadership. Some of these interviews took me to London, which I love visiting, but hated living there. (I couldn’t stand the long, dark months from about October to May.) But seeing London as a tourist is […]

Technological innovation is accelerating, and putting pressure on businesses to adapt faster, embrace the new, shed the old, disrupt or be disrupted … Blink. Did you miss something? In an exponentially interconnected world, the revolution is constant and it’s nigh on impossible to measure the pace or scope of change. No Ordinary Disruption, the recent book by McKinsey Global Institute’s Richard Dobbs, James […]

I hate the way we have cynically reduced the naturally sociable instincts of human beings (we evolved as herd animals, after all) to a bloodless skill or – worse – a KPI. I have never in my life “networked”, but I will happily have a chat with just about anyone. Which brings me to another thing […]

High-speed rail (HSR) has been the subject of debate in Australia for decades. Why are we so slow to leave the station? An Australian HSR network High-speed rail carves an intricate grid across places such as Europe, China and Japan, where the first Shinkansen bullet train shot out of a Tokyo station more than 50 […]

Indian restaurant Pappadavada and Chobani founder Hamdi Ulukaya join Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on this month’s thumbs up list for effective leadership. Thumbs down goes to 7-Eleven, Priceline CEO Darren Huston, and Portico/PwC high-heel scandal in the UK. Pappadavada Many food retailers and wholesalers donate unsold produce to charities but Minu Pauline’s Pappadavada restaurant in […]

A lot can happen in a workplace in a year. People join, people leave and whole businesses can be restructured. But when those big changes happen, employees who are absent on parental leave are often an afterthought. Quite a few managers have tripped up by denying these parents their legislated rights when their jobs are […]

The problem is the word “impact” tends to be intrinsically linked to size. Impact is only viewed positively when it’s big. In fact, big is often not enough. It needs to be bigger than big. It needs to be HUGE. A small impact is basically no impact. A tiny impact isn’t worth the paper it’s […]