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Soft skills is a serious misnomer Walk into any HR department, scroll through any LinkedIn post about professional development, or sit through any career coaching session, and you’ll hear the same refrain: soft skills matter.…
Read MorePart 4 of our series on how decisions get made You are leading through a difficult period where performance is uneven and morale is fragile. Expectations haven’t changed but you need to make a call…
Read MoreHow Decisions Get Made Part 3 You’re sitting in a leadership meeting with a proposal on the table in front of you. On paper, it’s strong. But something feels off. One senior stakeholder is unusually…
Read MoreWhen to Move Fast and When to Slow Down You get a message late in the day. A decision is needed before tomorrow morning. A partner organisation is waiting. Delays could cost the deal. You…
Read MoreA few weeks ago, Oracle laid off thousands of employees via email. Recently, Meta announced restructuring and job cuts. Decisions like these make headlines because they expose something uncomfortable: organisational choices are rarely just about…
Read MoreBefore we dive into this piece, we want to make one thing clear. We have been huge fans of Deloitte and have respected the work the company has done on workplace wellbeing. They were early…
Read MoreThirty thousand people. One email. No meetings. No conversations. Systems locked before employees could respond, reach out, or even say goodbye. Oracle’s leadership will tell us in the press, on LinkedIn, in meetings, etc. that…
Read MoreWe’ve developed what we call the Five Capacities of a Thriving Human System. The Five Capacities offer a holistic, human-centred way of understanding growth and performance, grounded in how people actually function at work, rather…
Read MoreThe empathy–shame paradox offers a compelling lens for understanding how internal conflict can shape external disconnection. When we experience shame, although deeply human, our capacity for empathy is diminished; rather than drawing people into solidarity…
Read MoreMost workplaces don’t suffer from a lack of talent or ambition—they struggle with something far more human. Misunderstandings linger. Tensions build quietly. People feel disconnected even while working side-by-side.
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