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How Not to Create Heartless Leaders, Mindless Organisations

How Not to Create Heartless Leaders, Mindless Organisations

The use of technology, data, insights, and common sense will eliminate the space for heartless leaders to thrive and operate mindless organisations.

2021

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Why Your Team Reacts Instead of Planning for Change

Your team doesn’t resist proactive change because they are shortsighted or lazy. They resist it because putting out fires has become the…

2d ago

Why Your Team Reacts Instead of Planning for Change

2d ago

When Corporations Start to Feel Like Family Businesses: Blessing or Burden?

The healthiest organisations pair durable memory with fresh perspective.

Aug 13

When Corporations Start to Feel Like Family Businesses: Blessing or Burden?

Aug 13

People Dynamics — Not People — Are the Most Important Asset

The missing link in building high-performing teams isn’t talent — it’s interaction.

Aug 4

People Dynamics — Not People — Are the Most Important Asset

Aug 4

The Economics of Feedback: Why We Avoid Truth and Pay for It Later

We must actively create conditions where honesty is not punished but prized.

Jul 18

The Economics of Feedback: Why We Avoid Truth and Pay for It Later

Jul 18

Why We Listen to the Wrong People

It feels safer to listen to someone famous than to take a chance on someone unknown.

Jun 25

Why We Listen to the Wrong People

Jun 25

The Beautiful Lie: How Self-Deception Saves Us

Humans are survival artists, masters of self-deception by necessity.

May 30

The Beautiful Lie: How Self-Deception Saves Us

May 30

How to Build a Change-ready Organisation

Change is an inevitable, but transformation is not

Apr 12

How to Build a Change-ready Organisation

Apr 12

How the Discovery of Fire Teaches Us to Embrace Change

Let me take you back to a time long, long ago, when humans first discovered something truly remarkable — fire. Imagine the excitement, the…

Sep 17, 2024

How the Discovery of Fire Teaches Us to Embrace Change

Sep 17, 2024

Are You a True Leader, or Are You Just Pretending to Be One?

Organisations must understand the link between weak leadership and its true cost.

Aug 22, 2024

Are You a True Leader, or Are You Just Pretending to Be One?

Aug 22, 2024

5 Other Things Not to Say in a Leadership Role

It is essential to communicate explicitly; an implicit message will not do.

May 21, 2024

5 Other Things Not to Say in a Leadership Role

May 21, 2024

Ali Kursun

Ali Kursun

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Ali is a thought leader in transformation, change, and workforce strategy. He is the founder of sparkChief & Co. www.sparkchief.com and the author of 8 books.

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