Career

Are the very skills that make you indispensable today quietly holding you back from the leadership roles you want tomorrow? I recall many years ago going into a meeting with a leading global technology services firm. The small conference room was filled with around a dozen senior managers and other various experts in their field. Here to ‘do battle’ and convince them that my organisation had the answer to whatever problem they had (I can’t recall precisely what it was now) we

Career paths follow a well-trodden route, right? Work hard, get promoted, lead a team and ultimately progress to ever more senior roles. Well, Gen Z seems to be rewriting that story. A recent survey by global recruitment firm Robert Walters found that 52 percent of Gen Z professionals did not want to take up middle management roles. This finding introduces us to a curious new phrase that is gaining popularity – the notion of ‘conscious unbossing’ .  It reflects a choice to av

Research by organisational psychologist Dr. Tasha Eurich undertaken back in 2018 discovered that while about ninety-five percent of...

Blowing your own trumpet is a curiously English phrase that apparently stems from medieval times when heralds used trumpets to announce...

There’s an old fable about a baby elephant that is tied to a post. Try as it might the baby elephant cannot break free because the post...