Tag Archives: Leadership

3
May

Emotional wear and tear

If the current economic climate is having one effect on leaders, it’s emotional wear and tear. We’re now in our fourth year of bad news, and there’s little sign that things are going to get any better in the near future.  At the beginning, the people in charge seemed to want to spread a message of optimism, with messages such as ‘Don’t worry, things will pick up soon.’ However, the march of events has gradually taken the shine off promises like this, and has forced us to face up to a completely new condition in organisations: emotional wear and tear, by which we mean a silent process of exhaustion that saps our energy to keep on motivating our teams. (more…)

13
Apr

The toxic tandem, or bosses who are "eating the biscuit"

These are not good times for leaders: the economic crisis is bringing into sharp focus what Robert Sutton, professor at Stanford, refers to as the “toxic tandem” which is formed by bosses and subordinates. One half of the tandem consists of people with power who are not always in touch with the needs of those working for them; the other half is occupied by staff who tend to read too much into their bosses’ actions. (more…)

16
Feb

Leaders, kangaroos and communication

Few subjects arouse such interest as leadership. There are millions of entries devoted to it in Google, and hundreds of courses and books, some of which provide the ingredients for becoming a good leader in the best style of the traditional cookery book. (more…)