by Jonathan Gifford | Aug 8, 2022 | Business & Leadership, news
Until I read yesterday’s Sunday Times article covering Rishi Sunak’s bid to become leader of the Conservative Party, I was vaguely aware that his wife, Akshata Murty was the daughter of a successful and wealthy Indian businessman; I had no idea that her...
by Jonathan Gifford | Feb 26, 2015 | Business & Leadership
Is your organisation stuck in the industrial era? Find out now by taking our quick, twenty-question How Steam Are You? survey for an instant analysis. The results that you will be given online on completing the survey are slightly light-hearted, but the issue...
by Jonathan Gifford | Dec 12, 2014 | Business & Leadership
I have been observing managers, and was for a long time managed by managers, for more years than I care to recall. I am using the term ‘managers’ advisedly, because, believe me, there is no sense in which these managers were, or are, ‘leaders’. History as...
by Jonathan Gifford | Oct 18, 2014 | Business & Leadership
Are you ever stressed at work? That was a trick question. We are all stressed at work, in ways so fundamental that we do not even recognise them. Work is a deeply unnatural social environment. People are actually very good at coming together to help each other...
by Jonathan Gifford | Jan 31, 2014 | Business & Leadership
In my earlier blog, Ricardo Semler, Maverick: organisational democracy or anarchy? or I said that I didn’t believe that ‘democracy’ is a good model for running a modern business – despite the apparent success of Ricardo Semler, author of Maverick and The Seven...
by Jonathan Gifford | Jan 31, 2014 | Business & Leadership
In my previous blogs, I have given some background to the story of Ricardo Semler, who took over the Brazilian manufacturing company, Semco, from his father and nearly ruined his health by behaving as the kind of hard-driving autocratic business owner that he assumed...
