Discovering the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) thirteen years ago was one of those epiphany moments. It provided a perspective on how I was wired and what makes people tick. I qualified as an MBTI practitioner a year later and have subsequently seen many others experience similar moments The MBTI describes personality in terms of preferences. …
Canoeing down the River Orb in Southern France, it struck me what a powerful team building activity this was. Two men in a boat, my brother-in-law Richard and I set off with little idea of what we were doing other than our destination was four hours downstream. Launching the canoe went rather well, but within …
Peter Drucker famously said that management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. It can be tough fathoming out what the right things are, particularly in difficult times such as these. For example, is it about hitting key performance indicators at the exclusion of everything else? Maybe it’s playing safe and doing …
It’s a sad fact that the majority of change management programmes fail. Organisations simply under-estimate what it takes. Change management programmes rarely succeed if they are just the latest in a string of confusing initiatives. Right, done that, here comes the next one! A lot of us have seen and experienced that. The problem with …