Heating up & cooling down others
Helping managers is sometimes firing them, sometimes calming them down.
Go to the mountain
Instead of waiting for problems to come to HR, proactive HR professionals “go to the mountain” by regularly getting into other people’s doorways and starting conversations.
Moving problems
Like the “found family” trope from films, workplaces are where people form new gangs, new groups, new familites. But sometimes......
Simple solutions suck
Catchy slogans and simplistic insights that feel good but don’t actually change behaviour.
Flawed Mentors
This week we talk about the “flawed mentor” — that Gandalf/Dumbledore/Merlin figure who guides us… until the moment their limitations show up.
Rethinking Risk
What comedy can teach us about risk—and why playing it too safe can quietly kill your organisation’s growth.
The wrong tools
When is a manager's style wrong? Why do we need to intervene? There are many ways of dealing with situations, but most of the time rough handling of others isn't appropriate. .
It depends
Want to be wiser? Want to appear wiser? Or at least be less foolish? The answer is it depends.

