Quiz time Which of the following do you believe to bubiquitous-leadership-leaders-everywheree true in respect of business leaders? They are generally overpaid relative to the workforce. Leadership education is optimised for uncertainty. Leaders lead and managers manage. That’s right. None of them are true. Well at least for most organisations on the planet, ie those built upon industrial era factory principles. Let’s explore why. Not overpaid? Can it be right that the CEO of

Despite what the media is telling us, it is a mistake to think that sustainability, hybrid working, mental wellness and so on are our top priorities. We are unlikely to move the needle in any of these important spheres if we do not have capable leaders. The crisis we face is that very few leaders are equipped to handle these issues and the broader challenge of engaging effectively in an increasingly chaotic world. The business schools and academies tasked with developing the

Values minimisation It’s a sign of the time when leaders in some organisations earn over a thousand times more than the median company salary. Are they really that good? Or is the upper limit of employee value contribution limited by the focus on having most people in the organisation operating as process monkeys, slavishly adhering to the operations manual? In the public sector part of the core skillset appears to be avoiding getting caught. In the unlikely event that you ar

Order order The industrial era organisational approach, ie Taylorism, is an approach that many if not all organisational leaders are looking to emulate. The modern business classic,   E-Myth Enterprise book   by Michael E. Gerber encourages readers to work on their business and not in it. Build a sausage machine and simply work out how to turn the handle faster and with less effort. The underlying assumption is that you can ‘process-ise’ people such that they operate like a w