Leadership involves gratitude and humility, but what does this mean for results? My teams have helped me to learn to lead with gratitude and it's a lesson I will not forget.
Balancing Gratitude in Leadership with Results
Systems Thinking and Data Science: a partnership or a competition?
Why do organizations get stuck with their data? It is such a fundamental question. Often, this problem can be due to the organization concentrating solely on technology and data. However, organizations can be supported by a synergistic approach by integrating systems thinking with the data strategy and technical perspective.
Business Intelligence or Change Management?
Is your data issue a business intelligence problem... or a change management issue? Can you distinguish these perspectives, or is it differing views on the same thing
Is it ever possible to eradicate Excel from the organization?
Is it ever possible to eradicate Excel from an organization? What is the place of Excel in a modern business?
5 Top Tips on running a business
Sharing thoughts on running a business; the importance of building a network and getting references while being very focused on your goals.
Motivating Teams and Individuals: Reward Systems
What is the main interest of managers in motivation? Managers and Leaders need to work on motivation in order to achieve objectives for the organisation and the team. The aim should be to change employees’ motivations from what they are, to what the manager wants them to be (Purcell et al, 2003) Therefore, it is related to performance. Performance is behaviour because you are doing something. Concepts of performance involve ‘levels’ of performance and ‘quality’ of performance, which means that performance is linked to measurement. Therefore, motivation is key to achieving good performance.