Power • Influence • Impact
Nine out of ten leaders are not respected by nine out of ten of their followers. Well, that’s the way it often appears when you get a group of people together in a room talking about leadership. This also came across loud and clear earlier this year when I was...
There are many ways to influence people. Positive ways build long-term relationships, although there is a risk that in the short term you may not get what you want. Negative ways of influence are perhaps more likely to get you what you want today; but in the long run,...
Are you getting recognised by the people who count in your organisation? It is one thing being really good at your job, expert in your field and able to bang in big results, and quite another getting noticed. Getting noticed means that you have to be out there...
The easiest way to make a big impact at the top table is to have big responsibilities. Ideally, bigger than most of the other people you have to work alongside. The type of roles which grab this limelight and, to a large extent, the organisation is reliant upon....
Relationships need to be in good shape if you are going to be able to deliver at your best. You have relationships all around you: your boss, your co-workers, your team members, and many more besides. When they are not working, problems quickly ensue. If you are...
We normally view organisations as being split into formal groups such as marketing, operations, sales, etc. To this formal structure we can add cross-functional project teams created for specific purposes. This represents the way formal power assets are divided within...