The world is full of CEOs and leaders who think they know it all. The tech industry is especially guilty of it. Jeff Bezos , Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have all been called out for their aggressive leadership styles, characterised by arrogance, bravado, entitlement...
Teams have never been more important in business. But with the demands and complexities of today’s work environment—not to mention the challenges of working with global, remote or regularly changing team members—working in a team isn’t always easy. A great team is a...
A business is only as strong as the people working in it. This is true of any business, but when it comes to a startup, the quality of your staff can have a huge impact on your chances of success. While startup founders and entrepreneurs are often idolised for their...
You can spend upwards of 40 hours a week with your co-workers. Have you ever stopped to think that on any given weekday, you could be spending more time with your work family than your actual family? And unfortunately, you can’t choose who that work family is. As is...
A lot of the work we do is with teams. We work with leadership teams, project teams, virtual teams, teams that are thrown together at the last minute and teams that have been together for a long time. And one of the most interesting things we see in teams is how the...
Change is hard. Just ask Borders Bookstore, who went bankrupt after a strategic change saw them investing heavily in CDs and DVDs, right as the industry was going digital. Or Time Warner and AOL, whose merger failed catastrophically because no one accounted for the...
What’s the best HBDI® profile for a leader? This is one of the most common questions we get asked about the HBDI and leadership. We all want to know which is the best profile, and we all want to know if it’s ours. Fortunately for you, the answer we give is always the...
Earlier this year, New Zealand was called out for the lack of women holding senior positions in their 27 NZX-listed companies. The country lags behind the UK, US and Australia with 18% of listed companies having zero female directors. Research has shown that having...
Leadership and development strategies needs to embrace not just the thinking but the doing. How can you go about about this thoughtfully and effectively?
