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What’s the difference between leadership and management?

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Don’t hire the best.

July 13, 2021 Benjamin Drury

When Simon Sinek gives his students’ group work. He does a little experiment. Often when teachers organise groups, they put a selection of abilities in each group, to make the groups balanced and give each group similar chances of success and achievement. Sinek, does it differently….

Leading = Service not power!

June 3, 2019 Benjamin Drury

Leadership is simple. Your job as a leader is not to be ‘in charge’, but to be ‘in service’. If you are leading a team, your role is to create an environment where people in that team can perform their best work. Your job is to make sure that everyone in that team has everything they need to bring their.. Read more

Walk the walk…

January 10, 2019 Benjamin Drury

Culture Truth #7 – Beware the bureaucracy!

October 9, 2018 Benjamin Drury

“Relentlessly seek out the best practices to achieve your big a-ha, whether inside or out, adapt them and continually improve them.” Jack Welch If you were writing a unofficial handbook for new recruits at your organisation what would it include? How big would it be? How many dos and don’ts would it contain? Would it match the official one that.. Read more

Culture Truth #4 – Hire people who feel it!

September 3, 2018 Benjamin Drury

Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash In the early 1980s, the Ford Motor Company was not enjoying its previously heady success. It was losing money – $3.3 billion over three years – to its cheaper and more efficient Japanese competitors, like Toyota. In 1983 they set about trying to stem the slide and restore the fortunes of the 80 year old.. Read more

Heroes of Culture: Henry v

April 24, 2018 Benjamin Drury

Peter Ducker famously once said that “culture eats strategy for breakfast”, but while he might have been the first to say it, he probably wasn’t the first to realise it, since Henry V managed to build an awesome organisational culture more than 500 years before the phrase was first coined. On 25th October 1415 (Saint Crispin’s Day) Henry’s army took.. Read more

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