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Why is everyone behaving so weirdly?
This month I’ve been asked – a lot – for my thoughts on things like: Handling entitled employees Why HR are handling a spike in
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3 deceptively easy ways to break your B-Suite leaders
2022 is going to be a big year. It has to be – transformational results are high on the shareholder agenda everywhere, and without your
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Redefining Success
After “the year we panicked” followed by “the year we stood still” welcome to “the year that is already really annoying.” By 25 January, my evaluation of
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THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN TALENT CHALLENGE with Rebecca Houghton
BOLDHR’S 2022 FORECAST What the real issues are What they’re not 6 action steps to navigate you through it The Covid era will long
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The Third Way
Next year is going to be a brand new way of working for all of us, and for B-Suite leaders this will bring a whole
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2022 Forecast
This month, I’ve been hovering over my crystal ball with increasing frustration, and I know you have too. I’ve been looking for insight, and all
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Three little words
I’ve mentored exactly thirty B-Suite leaders this month. I like things to be tidy, so that number pleases me disproportionately (is that weird?). The leaders I
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Peter and the workload Wolf
I think we all know the story of Peter, the boy who cried wolf. He did it so many times that the townsfolk stopped listening,
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A most ingenious paradox
I was watching Pirates of Penzance recently (I’m in lockdown after all) and this paradoxical little ditty caught my eye. You know the one –
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Why patience is – still – a virtue
When I help B-Suite leaders to increase their influence, we focus on influencing in four directions – up, down, out and across. Up is your
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Our need to be right is wrong, right?
We humans are weird. We are programmed to derail ourselves and yet we still succeed. Mel Schwarz, who fascinatingly links quantum physics to conflict and change, tells
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The perplexing power of power
I’ve been thinking a lot about power recently. Not in a megalomaniacal, mwah ha ha kind of way but in a how does the mere