How To Embrace Your Authentic Leadership Style Introverts and Extroverts have strengths and weaknesses but the key to good leadership lies not in personality type but in a self-aware commitment to authenticity Is introversion a barrier to leadership? Absolutely not. We live in an age that values authenticity. Individuals who are perceived to be genuine …
The CX Revolution The HR function plays a vital role in creating an agile, well-managed organisation. Human resources teams don’t always get the credit they deserve. Yes, most of us would acknowledge that without HR professionals working in the background, important functions such as recruitment, training, employee administration and career management would grind to a …
Breaking the years’ experience job requirement for a diverse workforce A demand for experience could be hampering recruitment and reducing diversity. Skills-focused hiring could be the answer. Picture a typical job advert. A paragraph or two outlining the role followed by a short list of the skills. This is followed by a stipulation of previous …
AI is revolutionising the way that organisations approach cybersecurity, but criminals are deploying the same technologies for their own ends. In the summer of 2019, the Wall Street Journal reported the – at that point – unusual case of a UK-based energy company executive who was tricked into sending €220,000 to a supplier in Hungary. …
Cutting-edge technology is providing organisations with the means to create greener more sustainable supply chains. The reward is lower costs and higher profits. Back in the 19th century, if you wanted to move goods “at speed” across ocean trading routes you probably booked space on a clipper – a streamlined class of sailing ship capable …
There’s nothing new under the sun. Back in the mid-1700s, philosopher and economist Jeremy Bentham came up with the idea of the “panopticon” prison. Put simply, this was a building in which all the cells had one open wall facing towards a central watch tower. While the prisoners couldn’t see the tower, the prison guards …
Navigating the Inter-generational Divide in Senior Leadership The modern workforce typically has four generations working together. At leadership level, this can offer huge advantages. The first Baby Boomers joined the global workforce in the early nineteen sixties. “Generation Z” began to collect their salaries in the late 2000s. In between we’ve seen the arrival of …
Navigating the Lexical Landscape for Effective Communication Jargon is everywhere and while it can serve a useful purpose it can mask meaning and alienate outsiders Everybody hates jargon. And yet, most of us probably find that within the course of a working day, common corporate buzzwords and industry-specific phrases spill from our lips. Deep down, …
The Metamophosis of ChatGPT As artificial intelligence continues to advance, we are witnessing the emergence of sophisticated language models like ChatGPT, capable of generating human-like text and engaging in various conversations. This has raised an intriguing question: Should ChatGPT be able to write a blog about itself? While it may seem like a paradoxical concept, …
Pushing Boundaries Through Clever Innovation Innovation is the key to market disruption. What can companies of all sizes learn from the success stories of the last twenty years? Cast your mind back twenty years to the year 2000. The business world looked very different back then. Netflix was posting out DVDs to its customers rather …
