Leadership transformation is the process through which an organisation fundamentally changes how it leads, makes decisions and enables people to work together.
Leadership innovation is about inventing new ways of leading, organising and collaborating before existing approaches reach their limits.
After walking through the seven management crises one at a time, the obvious move is to launch seven fixes, a program for each. I want to argue that this is exactly the wrong response. Responding to management crises well means…
I have watched organisations spend a fortune on wellbeing apps, foosball tables and quarterly surveys, and watch their engagement scores keep falling anyway. The engagement crisis is the widespread loss of motivation, commitment and discretionary effort at work, and it…
I once ran a small consultancy in Sydney, and the single best thing we did for the team cost almost nothing and looked like a gimmick. The social connection crisis is the steady weakening of the bonds between people, the…
I have watched more than one organisation spend a fortune hunting for a rare external expert while the person who could have done the job sat two desks away, bored and about to resign. The skills shortage is the growing…
I want to be careful with this one, because behind every statistic in it is a person having a hard time. The psychological health decline is the steady rise in stress, anxiety, burnout and distress that people carry into and…
I have run enough sessions on the meaning of work to know the moment it goes quiet in the room. Someone says, carefully, that they used to care about the job and are not sure where that went. They have…
I have sat in a lot of rooms where a senior leader, halfway through a workshop, quietly admits that they are not sure they deserve their own job. It happens more often than any org chart would suggest, and it…
I have watched a lot of climate strategies get written, funded and framed on office walls. I have watched far fewer managers get equipped to answer the team member who asks, on an ordinary Tuesday, whether the project they are…
These management crises gather several crises that managers and executives must answer. These management crises are anything but new! And yet I have still seen no training, no workshop and no keynote designed to prepare managers to bring constructed, structured…
I am writing a book on regenerative management for Gereso, and to introduce it I have to start with the idea underneath it: the ecology of work. In one sentence, regenerative management is my answer to the interconnected crises pressing…
The invulnerable manager diagnostic starts from an uncomfortable idea: a manager can be highly competent and structurally fragile at the same time. Competent because they deliver results, absorb the emergencies and keep the organisation running. Fragile because the team would…
For several years I have looked at my incoming requests with one question in mind: almost all of them begin with a request to speak on a topic, and very few begin with my name. A training manager wants a…