By guest contributor Pia Lee, CEO of Squadify Amy Edmondson published an article in the Harvard Business Review this week on ‘Leading psychological safety in the hybrid workplace’. Seeing this as ‘the belief that one can speak up without risk of punishment or humiliation’, she outlines...
By guest contributor Dan Hammond, CPO of Squadify This week, 12 UK football teams joined a new European Super League that would include the biggest teams without risk of relegation. Not everyone liked it. Here’s former Portugal forward Luis Figo: “This greedy and callous move would spell...
By guest contributor Dan Hammond, CPO of Squadify A new report by Josh Bersin on Wellbeing contains an urgent imperative for business and team leaders. The report observes that early wellness/wellbeing initiatives beginning in the ‘80s were limited but in the last 10 years wellness has become more holistic...
By guest contributor Dan Hammond, CPO of Squadify My daughters are revising at home. In the kitchen. Which is great. No really, it’s fine. Anyway, the discovery I made from them this week is Study Stream. This site allows you to join a Zoom call that includes hundreds...
By guest contributor Dan Hammond, CPO of Squadify Here in the UK more and more people are going ‘wild swimming’. This means taking a dip (very short in my case) in the ‘refreshing’ waters of our lakes and rivers. My sister says it should be called ‘swimming’....
By Dan Meek, CEO, LIW This week, revelations emerged from Goldman Sachs employees of 95-hour weeks, five hours sleep a night, harsh treatment by senior bankers and the effects on their physical and mental health. Abusive management is never forgivable but while these hours may seem absurd, you...
By guest contributor Dan Hammond, CPO of Squadify A recent article in Harvard Business Review contained a treat for players of ‘Business Bullsh*t Bingo’. It is a term used by cultural anthropologists to describe a rite of passage and the authors suggest that it could be...
By Dan Meek, CEO, LIW Last week, Squadify introduced us to Gareth, a one-of-a-kind rock star keeping his team in suspense with his mind-blowing, creative brilliance. Whilst it’s likely to remind many of us of similar stereotypes, the parody highlighted a serious challenge for leaders in today’s...
By guest contributor Dan Hammond, CPO of Squadify It really feels like we are in the ‘groundhog phase’ of lockdown now so I was delighted to come across some inspiration while doom-scrolling through LinkedIn today: a conversation between Vas Narasimhan , the CEO of Novartis, and...
By guest contributor Dan Hammond, CPO of Squadify Here in the UK, we just heard how we will emerge from the pandemic. Slowly. Many of us realised that we had been over-optimistic. I was reminded of Admiral James Stockdale. Jim Collins made popular Stockdale’s paradox, created in a...