People at the top are asking how to handle the tremendous pressures on organisations. What does it mean to be a leader? How do you manage it? Recruit for it? It’s got more complicated and people don’t know how to deal with it. Tune in to this discussion...

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is about how to achieve business success in today’s environment, which is so different from the one on which most management thinking and practice is based. Many of the ideas in the book are new, but some are also familiar but revised to better suit...

and is replacing the notion that people leave managers not organisations. Increasingly today, people belong to flexible teams, and multiple teams, and work across boundaries, remotely and virtually. One effect of this is that the line manager is becoming a distant...

Conventional thinking has pushed too much onto line managers and given them an impossible task. New ways of working are making current line management structures and processes unviable. Check out new approaches to line management in this article from Strategic HR Review

 The business environment is changing rapidly, with stronger global competition, shorter product development times and widespread economic uncertainty all clearly evident. These and other external pressures are creating new internal challenges for businesses,...

A little experience goes a long way: How to accelerate leadership effectiveness In our previous blog, we discussed how new leadership assessment and development models are needed for the constantly changes that leaders face. With their time for learning at a premium,...

 We are often told that the business community hates uncertainty. If this is true, then there must be unprecedented levels of dread currently coursing through the veins of senior executives globally. Unpredictable trading conditions, big political uncertainties and...

The LeBron James Effect: First Signs You Are about to Lose Your Top PerformerOct 6, In 2010, LeBron James left the Cleveland Cavaliers to become a free agent. The Cavaliers tried everything to keep James on their team: they appealed to his sense of commitment and...

More than ever, organizations recognize the value of good leadership. According to the Corporate Leadership Council, organizations with high-quality leadership outperform their competitors in shareholder returns and market capitalization, whereas poor leadership is...

Pinsight can help you achieve Better Leadership Hires – Strategic Talent Reviews – Impactful Leadership Development. Contact us to find out more about our first certification workshop on 28 April in Bristol. Become part of a selected network of Pinsight...

Leaders need to have clear vision and organisation needs to buy into this to have a shared understanding to take vision and strategy forward   There are building blocks – employees have duty of loyalty and fidelity and directors have fiduciary duties...

It is of course important to build a leadership pipeline and make sure the people coming through the organisation are developed and nurtured. Often contracts haven’t kept pace with this.  Even non compete clauses are often out of date. Employment contracts...

What advice do you have for leaders seeking a new opportunity? Keep your profile fresh and in the public domain as a leader. Tune in to this discussion with Janice Caplan and Carolyn Ponder of Scala with Michael Bronstein of Salans LLP Employment Group, and Alison...

People make or break an organisation’s reputation – employers must trust employees to be responsible about how using these tools   Social media and web are bear traps Businesses are restrained in what can and cannot say but once something on social...

What are your views about the best way of identifying potential, of finding people’s hidden or underused talents?” Listen to the response to this question from Ulrike Hess of TPM, ACE's partners in Germany, and Marion Neefe of Interselect, ACE's partners...

What tips do you have for someone who has not run development centres before?” Listen to the response from Marion Neefe of Interselect, ACE's partners in the Netherlands.