Leading Change - Cascading Strategic Deployment System leadership leading change organisational design

Unveiling How Strategy, Goals, and Cultural Frameworks Fit Together to Enhance Organisational Experience – Derek Mair

Building a high-performing organisation requires more than just setting ambitious goals. The alignment between strategy, goals, and culture plays a critical role in shaping...

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From Managed Compliance to Committed Culture leadership leading change organisational design

In many organisations, especially those prioritising safety, quality, or strict regulations, the culture can lean heavily on managed compliance. Compliance is crucial, no doubt—rules and procedures safeguard both people and operations. But what happens when the organisational culture is...

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Three Crucial Cultural Elements Required to Enhance Employee Engagement leadership leading change neuroscience organisational design

Companies today are twisting themselves in knots trying to figure out how to engage their employees more.

The fundamental flaw in this endeavour is that it’s not about trying to engage them, its about energising them so they ‘choose’ to be more engaged.

In today's competitive...

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How To Increase Your Personal Success Effectiveness Zone leadership neuroscience personal development

At the very foundation of the human psyche is this simple fact:

The need to be congruent with who you identify yourself as in different situations. 

In order to have something like an amazing business, you need to develop the beliefs, values and identity of an amazing leader / business owner....

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PUSH Leadership vs. PULL Leadership

PUSH Leadership vs. PULL Leadership; The stats over the past 15 years speak for themselves…

Interdependency is key to drive innovation through collective contribution, where team members are ‘pulled’ along together influenced by a strong sense of shared purpose. 

One...

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How To Energise Employee Engagement

‘Employee Engagement' has been a buzzword for some time now across corporate and SME companies.

An employee might be categorised as being “engaged” if they do their job well, have decent working relationships, and participate positively with the company culture. However, the...

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The Three Pā€™s of Leadership Evolution leadership leading change organisational design

In financial markets Options and Futures are examples of zero-sum games where, if one party loses, the other party wins, and the net change in wealth is zero.

In social circles, poker and gambling are popular examples of zero-sum games since the sum of the amounts won by some players equals the...

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Closing The Gap Between Strategy & Execution leadership leading change organisational design

According to a well-documented Harvard Business Review business leaders have an intuitive grasp of the fact that obstacles to long-term success often arise from a lack of consistent interaction and collaboration among team members in strategic -planning.

Paradoxically, despite this...

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What is Leadership leadership personal development

What is Leadership

At NOVO Leadership International we are constantly asked to define what leadership is and there are certainly many text book answers to that question, though fundamentally through experience it is simply about the ability to influence others to follow on the path that you...

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The Neuroscience Of Purpose leadership leading change neuroscience

The Neuroscience of Purpose – NOVO Leadership

“Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life. That is why man is even ready to suffer, on the condition, to be sure, that his suffering has meaning.” – Viktor...

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The Neuroscience of Motivation leadership neuroscience personal development

One Lamp Post at a Time – By Derek Mair

The Neuroscience of How to Motivate Yourself to be Motivated

Motivation: a motive or reasons for acting or behaving in a particular way or a desire or willingness to do something…. Motive-Action

It is one's motive...

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We Are at A Shift Change in Human Consciousness leadership leading change organisational design

Leaders Take Note: The Future Of Organisational Design...

The evolution of organisational design is intrinsically aligned throughout history to shift changes in human consciousness. We are on the cusp of a conscious expansion and companies must position themselves ‘now’ to...

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