Restoring the promise of social media
Rod Collins | 16 Nov 2018
Only by embracing the notion that all voices matter and redesigning their algorithms to promote collective intelligence can social media companies start to defuse the state of toxic tribalism that has fractured our social discourse.
Is your organisation a cult?
Manfred Kets De Vries
Many businesses display cult-like characteristics, offering a form of meaning, purpose and belonging but demanding strict adherence to their set of beliefs and swiftly punishing or ostracising those who don’t conform.
Compassion
Duane Dike
Compassion is not typically revered in the corporate world. Bosses are simply supposed to get things done. But if they're not careful, they can become impersonal, non-compassionate and ultimately, non-human.
Social media: how did we get here?
Rod Collins
One of the great ironies of the digital revolution is the environment of toxic tribalism that has been enabled by social media and the collective unconscious blindness it has brought with it.
Three lessons in crisis leadership
Piyumi Kapugeekiyana
There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to crisis management. But studying examples of crises that have been handled well can teach us some very valuable coping mechanisms that could help avoid a crisis turning into a disaster.
Emotional intelligence doesn't translate
David Livermore | 24 Sep 2018
Emotions are universal. But the ways in which different cultures express them are not. So what’s considered appropriate in one culture could get you in trouble if blindly applied to colleagues and friends elsewhere.
New ways of thinking and acting
Rod Collins
For more than a century, the basic formula of management has been “plan and control.” But today this no longer works because strategies are no longer planned, they’re discovered. So the new formula for business should be “explore, experiment and execute”.
Get out of the way!
Duane Dike
What kinds of things get in the way of productivity? There are no simple answers, but the one thing we can say is that barriers are almost always by-products of the destructive attitudes and behaviors of leaders.
The Connected Manager
Do you run meetings or lead them?
24 Sep 2018
Any meeting, whether in a conference room or online, can be run. But successful meetings need to be led - and there is a huge difference between running a meeting and leading one.
Five reasons remote teams fail
20 Aug 2018
Leading a remote team isn’t that different to leading a co-located one. But we do have to re-think how we do certain things. Here are five ways you can get that wrong.
Podcasts
Long Distance Leadership
What Matters
We talk to our old friend and long-time Management-Issues columnist, Wayne Turmel, about his book “The Long Distance Leader - Rules for Remarkable Long Distance Leadership”.
Hot Topics
Creativity & Innovation
Improve your personal creativity and help organizations do the same.
Customer Service
Because good service starts with good management.
Leadership
Have we learned anything new about leadership over the past few decades?
Team Building
How to put the "we" into a team.
The Change Challenge
Most change initiatives fail to deliver. Here's why.
Interviews
The geopolitics of the steppes
Jean-François Fiorina, Associate-Dean of Grenoble Ecole de Management, talks to Central Asian specialist, writer and explorer, René Cagnat, about the changing geopolitics of a vast region of the globe that is often overlooked.
It’s a fake! Countering the counterfeiters
Counterfeiting has become a global epidemic. Pierre Delval, one of the world’s leading authorities on counterfeiting, talks to Jean-François Fiorina, Associate-Dean of Grenoble Ecole de Management, about the scale of problem and the measures we need to take to combat it.