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Is focusing on fixing your “problem” people the best use of your time as a leader? We think not, and have developed a handy framework to better understand and manage the people in your team for greater success.

When an old person dies, a library burns." - Amadou Hampaté Ba This is a great African saying that means when knowledge carriers die, the information dies with them. When employees leave books burn, the longer they are with the organisation, the greater the...

There are two major stumbling blocks to effective communication. The first stumbling block is in the ‘art’ of communication: Because we have been communicating since we were about 18 months old we believe it must be simple and that we must be very good at it by now....

So, it’s official: Performance Management is broken. With industry leaders like Adobe, Microsoft, Motorola and Accenture all abandoning the traditional system complete with the crutch of the dreaded annual appraisal, and 70% of corporate employers either currently...

It is not without good reason that companies like Microsoft, Adobe, Motorola and Accenture are choosing to abandon traditional performance management methods. Managers have traditionally relied on the crutch of the traditional performance management system with its...

How many questions do you ask in a day? According to the Harvard Business Review article "Relearning the Art of Asking Questions" (Tom Pohlmann & Neethi Thomas, March 2015), the research indicates that children spend 70-80% of their conversation time asking...