Last time, we concluded with the core finding from the Haas Business School study: power can be beneficial for individual performances but can sabotage team performances. That’s quite a paradox for leaders, who want their teams to be as effective as possible as...
Most of us have either witnessed or found ourselves involved in work-based conversations that suddenly seem to erupt into verbal pyrotechnics and turn into conversational meltdowns. Other times, there are conversations that are intended to be about important...
Human teams are enigmatic entities: they collaborate on shared aims and goals at one level, and randomly reshape or reform those very aims and goals at another. Welcome to complexity theory. For managers, this can be something of a headache. Getting a project wrapped...
In a BBC Radio 4 interview, Sir Bob Geldof described how his friends had helped him through the traumatic death of his daughter, Peaches. There was no heavy-duty therapy, no probing exploration of his darkest feelings. His musician friends simply stayed with him,...
Positive psychology has become the focus of considerable critical attention of late - a mark, perhaps, of its growing stature. However, I think there is a misconception in some of these critiques - the assumption that positive psychology necessarily excludes...
Carrying on our focus on Appreciative Inquiry and the use of good questions, here we will consign a few more well-intentioned but counter-productive questions to the bin marked ‘never to be asked’. Bad question #3: Have you thought of doing it this way? This sounds...