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In the deep end – getting to grips with a bigger leadership job at high speed

Thursday, 21 April 2022 by Ian Lees

We used to talk about the speed of change, but the last two years have been off the charts for many industries and organisations. The impact of the pandemic led to urgent setting up of whole new work systems and even whole new organisations in areas like health and mass reductions in other sectors like

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Tagged under: Influencing, Leadership

When you can’t tell them

Friday, 20 December 2019 by Ian Lees

Have you ever caught yourself doing waffly corporate speak? Maybe something like this.. “As we strategically pivot to generate greater integration there may be, in the fulness of time, important adaptions that will need to be made to ensure future viability going forward.” Why do leaders talk like this? Is it some kind of brain

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Tagged under: Change, Trust
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