21st October 2009
Every organisation employs staff who bring a whole lot of baggage to work, some which is constructive and enables them to perform; some of which seriously gets in the way. The organisation never asks for it but bottom line, has to manage it. Organisationa...
29th September 2009
Barack Obama was inaugurated as President of the United States amid much emotion hope and optimism by those who saw to it that he was elected to that lofty position.
If one studies his famous acceptance speech upon learning he would become President wi...
09th March 2009
I find it curious that so many journalists provoking discussion and debate about some profound error of judgment on the part of a high- flying corporate executive or football player speculate that the decision maker in question was intellectually challeng...
27th June 2008
Culture is ubiquitously defined as "the way things are done around here". Note the distinction between how things are done and official mantra, company rhetoric, policy and even, relevant instruments of law. It's what we do and allow others to do that s...
26th June 2008
© Leanne Faraday-Brash
A client of mine was talking to me about their previous job as internal legal counsel for a professional services firm. His first week in his old job was particularly memorable, he reminisced. A distressed employee had come to...
06th February 2008
If one googles the phrase "Strategic Influence" we see literally thousands of references to a controversial department of the Pentagon established by the US in the advent of the war in Iraq which has since been disbanded. In contrast the humble program d...
18th January 2008
The end of a long, hard, satisfying and productive year... time to kick back and enjoy the festive season... and the staff Christmas party... well, sorry! If you are a manager or director of any but the smallest organisation, then you will find an unsolic...
18th January 2008
Three clients in the space of a week asked me if I'd seen the Harvard Business Review article by Steven Berglas on "The Very Real Dangers of Executive Coaching (June 2002)." One client was particularly interested in my reaction to the article's contentio...
