Leadership

In business and particularly in HR we talk about ‘fit’.  The right fit for the role, team fit, cultural fit, it’s all about fit and often as people we expect to fit in or try our best to so that we feel a sense of belonging.

Brené Brown talks repeatedly and more so in her latest book Braving The Wilderness about the differences between belonging and fitting in, and that if we ‘fit’ we lose some of our self, some of our authenticity, because to fit, we have to change who we are at the core.

Being agile and adaptive in today's age of ecosystems and accelerated change has seen a shift in what transformations of legacy organisations look like. Time to rethink what we mean, do and measure, when we talk business transformation.

Defining ' transformation' in relation to strategies and initiatives

A few years ago someone told me about a frustrating experience they’d had attending a Lean Six Sigma workshop.

This piqued my interest. They were a senior leader in the business and new to the world of Lean Six Sigma. I asked what had happened to make them feel this way.

This is what they told me…

It is a non-standard question, isn’t it? Most similar sentences have a subject other than HR inserted at the end– usually water, coal or another precious resource; a resource that has proven to be invaluable and close to extinction. After all, what has HR done for the world to care about it? It is just another profession and a non P&L one at that.

Delivering a customer-centric operating model and building a culture of continuous improvement are key aims in today’s fast-evolving business world. Are your team ready to compete? PEX Europe investigates!

The PEX Europe editorial team spoke to TFL’s Head of Business Change, Project Management to find out how he has led his team to a culture of continuous improvement to effectively serve 31 million passenger journeys per day.

On Tuesday 21 November 2017, Robert Gabriel Mugabe officially resigned as the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe. After 37 years in power, the man who became his country’s first democratically elected leader in 1980, stepped down in the wake of a military takeover that has sent shockwaves around the world.

"Many CISOs live day to day under the sword of Damocles”

A controversial quote to begin with, I admit.  However, in the past few years, data breaches have become more prominent, impacting businesses, governments, healthcare, and even hairdressers!  There is no let-up in sight and business leaders must pay attention to the cyber risks they face.