Not to put too fine a point on it, but could you be a Crap Boss (CB)? 1. A CB is unclear what they want from their people. They are ambiguous about their expectations. It is likely that they are not sure what they want from their people but they still expect them to know what to …
As the leader, are you owning the result? I like keeping things simple. Look at the results you are getting as the leader. They could be operational issues like productivity or safety, they may be financial like gross profit or net profit, or they may be people measures like absenteeism or levels of engagement. …
There was a time a while back when people used to boast about their long work hours and how little sleep they needed. Some wore it as a badge of honour. There is strong research that shows sleep deprivation inhibits good decision making and therefore good leading. In fact, suffering from lack of sleep can be …
I reckon most people want to better at leadership, but don’t know where to start. That’s why I wrote my book, Road Rules for Leadership. It’s a simple, practical guide to effective leadership. Since launching it a couple of years ago I’ve shared the content with thousands of people, giving them the guidance and confidence …
I’m not big on fads and buzz words and I’m sick of hearing that we should all be disrupting. The truth is, striving to improve and looking for better ways to do things is anything but new. Decades ago when the desire for better quality and continuous improvement came to the fore, some basic principles …
Now is a great time to get your ducks in a row for the next financial year, but many organisations don’t. Why? In my experience … ‘Too busy to plan’ (believe it or not, this is what I sometimes get told) ‘We are surviving, so we must be doing something right’ ‘We don’t know where …
As a passionate Aussie and sports fanatic, it pains me to praise an arch enemy like the New Zealand All Blacks, but credit where credit is due, and more importantly, there are some important leadership lessons to be learned from their story. I am currently reading ‘Legacy’ by James Kerr – what the All Blacks …
Hands up if you have ever said this? Most of us aren’t good at delegating. We are time poor and have trouble letting go. Trying to do everything leaves us feeling frustrated. There is a better way. Effective delegation is, almost universally in my experience, a key to helping leaders to become more effective. Here are the …
I’m not glad we cheated. I’m just glad we got caught cheating. Because we have been caught we have an opportunity to change. If they had not been caught, the cheating might have continued and our culture would have become even worse. There are two ways to change culture. The really hard way and the …
I’ve been banging on recently about how we should stop trying to be perfect (because it ain’t going to happen) and just focus on becoming incrementally better. If we tried, each day, to just be a little better than we were the day before, and we did it for long enough, our leadership effectiveness would …