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A Very Public Screw Up

14 September, 2023 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

Nigel Mansell's 1991 Williams-Renault example of avoiding blame culture.

Blame Culture, Isolate the Problem, Not the Person At the Portuguese Grand Prix in 1991, Formula One racing provided a textbook example of why organisations should avoid a blame culture. Nigel Mansell, driving for the Williams-Renault team, was in first place as he pulled in for a pit stop. What should have been a slick […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: blame, continuous improvement, culture, leadership, Nigel Mansell, simplicity, video, Williams-Renault

Take Me To Your Leader!

26 July, 2023 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

Dalek Leadership

Leadership Versus Management Fashions change, over the past twenty years we have stopped valuing management and started to value leadership. In an effort to promote leadership, businesses around the country have rechristend their “senior management teams” as “senior leadership teams”. I even worked for an organisation that insisted that all managers were called leaders, presumably […]

Filed Under: Blog, Wild Cards Tagged With: human resources, job titles, leadership, management, management style, purpose

Research: To Be a Good Leader, Start By Being a Good Follower

12 August, 2018 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

Harvard Business Review Kim Peters and Alex Haslam Who does the best job of finding good leaders? Assessors: managers, recruiters and trainers.  People whose job it is to find and promote talent. Leaders: the person themselves. Individuals who are convinced that they have what it takes. Followers: the team who have to work for the leader. The […]

Filed Under: Best of the Web, Blog Tagged With: beliefs, human nature, leadership, teamwork

The Three Sources of Influence

21 April, 2018 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

Influence

Transformation transfəˈmeɪʃ(ə)n NOUN – A marked change in the form, nature, appearance or character of something or someone, especially so that that thing or person is improved. The world is talking about transformation — it is the word of the moment.  Everybody wants some of it… So how do you create organisational transformation?  It is […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: influence, leadership

A World Class Ego

26 February, 2018 by James Lawther 2 Comments

Ego

ego ˈiːɡəʊ,ˈɛːɡəʊ/ noun: a person’s sense of self-esteem or self-importance. “he needed a boost to his ego” Synonyms: self-worth, self-respect, self-conceit, self-image, self-confidence, amour propre We all have egos But the ego of a corporate manager is stronger than most. Beyond a point we don’t work for the money. Power and status drive us. We even […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: blame, command and control, human nature, leadership, management style

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