Is Creativity The Most Important Leadership Skill?
In 2010 in an IBM Global CEO study creativity was highlighted as the most Important Leadership skill by 1 541 CEOs, general managers, and senior public sector leaders who represent different sizes of organizations in 60 countries and 33 industries. Chief executives...
When Children Don’t Play
There’s something most horrid that happens as we get older, somewhere on the journey from 11 to 23, and it involves the eradication of a fundamental part of what makes us human, and that is the ability to play. But it doesn’t stop there. Not only is it...
The Challenge of Outsourced Business Partners
During the 1990’s big businesses shrunk their workforce and the SOHO (Small Office Home Office) was born. Business would never be the same again. The question is whether we’re getting the best from these new outsourced partnerships that were birthed? I...
Jobs That Robots Will Not Replace
Over the last few weeks, I’ve written a few posts around machines and robots and how they’ll be kicking you out of your job as soon as they build one that can, which won’t be very long at all. You can read those here, here and here. According to Tech Insider: A...
The Little Things That Make a Big People Difference
I was seated in the HR strategy session of a large multi-national financial services company. All it’s smartest people where there. In the front of the room was a gigantic white-board (biggest I’d ever seen) and drawn onto the board were some very...
