My leadership style can be described as two weeks in the Bahamas with no wifi. 🏝️ It's summer break season again and I was recently reminded of my answer to an interviewer's question a few years ago about how I like to lead my team. It was a witty effort to describe in short the servant leadership style that I strongly believe in and apply. But don't let the tempting visual of a tropic vacation fool you; servant leadership takes a lot of hard #work and focused effort. Accord

Back in my hiring days, signing the contract with a newly hired member of my team was just the final step in my decision-making process. The probation period was more or less a formality, not another reason for the new person to prove something to me. It may sound overconfident but hear me out. By the time I made an offer I had run a structured process. Same questions in the same order, scored against pre-agreed criteria, with multiple people scoring and giving feedback. The

More than half your team is staying out of necessity, not because they actually enjoy their jobs. That doesn't stop organizations from tracking retention as a success metric. What the numbers are saying 77% of employees say they intend to stay with their current employer, up from 73% the year before. On paper, that reads like a good year. Look closer, though, and only 18% say they are staying because they genuinely want to be there. The rest are staying out of necessity. In t

Picture this: Oxford, 2023. A researcher named William Fleming stops asking whether the mindfulness pilot at one company worked and instead pulls together data on tens of thousands of workers across hundreds of organisations. He looks into mindfulness sessions, resilience workshops, and apps with breathing exercises in survey data covering 46,336 workers. His findings? Participants making use of these company-provided initiatives appeared no better off than everyone else. Mea

If you have ever worked in a corporate of almost any size, HR has probably sent you a survey built around a single question: How likely are you to recommend our company to others? And if you are like most people, you scratched your head and wondered why this even matters, and why they cannot just leave you alone to do your #job. 2026 has been a year of massive change, and we are only halfway through. Despite all the layoffs, restructures and reorganisations, your company is s