Exploring Integrity in Business – Part 1 I wrote a blog a couple of weeks ago saying that managing strong collaborative business relationships requires 4 key things, and that the first of those is Integrity. That got me thinking about what I really mean by Integrity, and why it is important. The Oxford Modern English […]
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Belief No. 2 for a High Performance Organisation “There is one thing that is common to every individual, relationship, team, family, organization, nation, economy, and civilization throughout the world—one thing which, if removed, will destroy the most powerful government, the most successful business, the most thriving economy, the most influential leadership, the greatest friendship,
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Inspired by Ted Coine’s recent blog “Don’t be a Twit” (find him on twitter as @tedcoine) and some subsequent conversations with TrueTwit users, I decided to put pen to paper, or rather fingers to keys. The increasing number of TrueTwit validation requests I get is really beginning to irritate me, particularly as, so far as
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I enjoyed an excellent lunch with a group of women business leaders yesterday. At one point the conversation turned to the recent “sexist banter” incident at Sky Sports, that resulted in the sacking of Andy Gray, and resignation of Richard Keys. I was quite surprised that everyone who expressed an opinion said something along the
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A while ago, on the train into work, I overheard a man sitting opposite me make a phone call. Now, I don’t make a habit of listening to other people’s conversations, but as you probably know, it’s not always that easy not to overhear them on the train. He was evidently speaking to a colleague
Following on from yesterday's rant about bad/ineffective/authoritarian/bureaucratic/secretive (call it what you will) management, I thought today I would be rather more constructive and put forward some proposals about how to become more effective in the way that you manage. It's about developing a style that I am going to call Managing with People, and if
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I spotted this article on the Chartered Management Institute web site, reported in the Financial Times last week: "A new survey of the workforce (5,000 adults surveyed by One Poll) highlights the three most common management styles within UK workplaces as authoritarian (according to 21 per cent), bureaucratic (16 per cent) and secretive (12.5 per
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I've been continuing to think about the whole thing of trust since my post on Tuesday, There seems to be a huge surplus of lack of trust around these days (Can you have a surplus of a lack of something? – anyway, I hope you know what I mean). We don't trust politicians – they
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What is your Trust level in business and life? Many people say a primary trait they want in political and business leaders is Integrity. But if you ask what they mean by that, the number of different answers is likely to equal the number of people asked. Integrity is one of those words that tends
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