No more Mr Nice Guy.

No more Mr Nice Guy.

Values don’t need to be NICE. What?!? It’s true. Corporate values are shared beliefs, attitudes, areas of focus. They allow people to self-select their suitability. They raise performance levels. They are profit-magnets. They help you achieve your goals....
Who is the management gurus’ guru’s guru?

Who is the management gurus’ guru’s guru?

Not only did Mary Parker Follett (1868-1933) influence many business experts’ favourite management guru Peter Drucker, who referred to her as the ‘prophet of management’, but also Maslow, creator of the famous hierarchy of needs, and many others who...
Because we want to!

Because we want to!

I’m working with an organisation whose volunteer workforce outnumbers its paid team by almost 4:1 and, in the serendipitous way of things, a wonderful remark was dropped into an interview during a discussion I hosted between three of their on-the-ground team members....
Which is worse: flouting values, or letting them slide?

Which is worse: flouting values, or letting them slide?

Did Boris turn a blind eye, or encourage the parties? (Let’s assume that he did actually know they weren’t strictly work.) And – also assuming we agree that the people who create the rules for the rest of us have a moral duty to adhere to them – which is a...