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Leadership

Being too nice to terminate someone’s employment creates bigger problems

Iyas A · Oct 22, 2019 ·

I remember the first time I had to deal with a team member who wasn’t meeting the needs of his role. We’d gone through the support, the training, trying to find another role. But ultimately none of that worked. So I took the next step. Which was to sit on it for a few months. […]

Is your team telling you what they think or what they think you want to hear?

Iyas A · Oct 21, 2019 ·

I had a tough decision to make, and I sought the advice of a senior member of my team. He told me what he thought. As he was more knowledgeable in that space than I was (or ever will be TBH), I went with his advice. It didn’t work out. As we reviewed what happened, […]

Great leaders aren’t overly vulnerable or authentic

Iyas A · Oct 20, 2019 ·

“Good leaders don’t hide their emotions. Be vulnerable. Be authentic.” Simplistic tosh that continues to do the rounds in the industry that is training the next generation of leaders, and undermining their ability to lead effectively. The challenge is that there is a lot of nuance to this that is lost beneath the headlines, and […]

Structure is not your goal

Iyas A · Oct 18, 2019 ·

In our drive for structure, we should always remember that structure is there to support an outcome, and is not an end goal in its own right. Leaders and consultants alike are guilty of creating frameworks and matrices. McKinsey’s famous MECE (mutually exclusive, completely exhaustive) is a wonderful triumph of the intellect over the real […]

The best business decision is the one you’ll actually follow up on

Iyas A · Apr 10, 2019 ·

Business decisions can be hard. When it gets too hard to decide, choose the one you’re most likely to do!

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