Category: Leadership
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Is Your Leadership Style Too Nice? A Better Question for Leaders
The debate about whether leaders are “too nice” misses the point. What matters is whether leadership builds trust, clarity, accountability, and genuine human connection.
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The Apprentice E5: Are bad managers preferred over good leaders?
Originally written in 2011. I’m bringing this piece back because it links closely to today’s reflections on leadership clarity and team dynamics — themes that continue to shape my work …“That’s bad management”… said Lord Sugar somewhat accusingly to Ricky Martin. But he wasnt ticking off the scintillating Latino singer in the picture below. Instead the…
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The Apprentice Ep 8: Artful Dodging replaces Artful Pitching
Episode 8 of The Apprentice in 2011 offered a sharp illustration of how performance, ego, and misplaced confidence can derail even the simplest business task. Team Logic’s attempt at a theatrical biscuit pitch revealed more about their leadership blind spots, group dynamics, and decision‑making under pressure than about the product itself. What unfolded was a…
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The Apprentice Ep5: When Leadership Sets Up a Cain and Abel Dynamic
First published in 2011, this piece examines how a leader’s framing shaped the behaviour, alliances, and tensions in the boardroom themes that continue to inform my work on leadership clarity and team dynamics.
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