There has been an abundance of topics that have been touched upon in our Business Performance division this year including data quality, establishing more specific business strategies, measuring your results, and transforming behaviour change. This blog looks at the winning themes and topics that captured the attention of the professionals within the industry. However, it’s [...]

Communicate, communicate, communicate … the word to those at the top is that you simply can’t communicate too much. No more so at a time when trust in management has ebbed to a new low, while nervousness and uncertainty about economic and market conditions continues to rise. Never has authentic leadership been at such a [...]

By Thomas A. Stewart | September 7, 2010 The definition of insanity, says the quip, is doing something again and again but expecting a different result. By this definition, every company I’ve known is looney tunes. We’ve all seen companies throw good money after bad. Oldsmobile was a zombie for years before the brand was [...]

Let’s sit you down in front of a video camera and and ask a simple question: What is the biggest mistake a leader can make? What’s your answer? My initial response, after pondering the recent fates of Tony Hayward, Mark Hurd and Gordon Brown, was this: The biggest mistake that can be made is to [...]

The rise and fall of CEOs has become a confusing and troublesome subject for us in recent years.

WTG Webinars are delighted to announce that Tom Stewart will presenting within our Leading Minds Series. Tom has spoken before for WTG webinars with his session on ‘The tests of a leader’ as well as giving the opening key note address at the HR Directors Summit 2009

Dave Ulrich, professor of business administration at the University of Michigan and HR’s Most Influential Thinker for the past three years, shares new perspectives on leadership and the implications for HR in an exclusive e-book for HR magazine.

Managers are over-estimating their strengths in the workplace, which is hindering the performance of the UK’s already struggling businesses and public-sector organisations, new research claims.

Introducing “The Future of Work” a pioneering research experiment led by Lynda Gratton, one of the world’s foremost thinkers. The purpose of the research is to develop real templates for how to successfully adopt the correct organizational practices to support the new way of working.

Consider the advice handed out to a new leader by Machiavelli, the Fifteenth Century thinker and forensic political analyst: “It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.” A tad politically incorrect for today’s world? Apparently not, according to a recent piece by Harvard Business Working Knowledge editor Sean Silverthorne. Passionate [...]