Leadership: Are we busy with cloning or clowning?

I have seen and experienced various leadership programmes in my career as group HR manager, industrial psychologist, facilitator, father, consultant, coach and Business School Lecturer. It seems to me that today the focus is still on the cognitive levels and latest fads and that we are trying to fix leadership problems from the MIND drive.

Energy-givers, energy-wasters and energy-takers in the workplace

Look around you and you’ll see three kinds of people – those who hate their work, those who just tolerate their work, and see it only as a paycheck, and finally, those who love their work, and relish it. See also the website http://www.assessment4impact.com/_needsgo.php

Work/LIfe Balance versus Life /work balance

Here are my suggestions

1. An organisational balanced scorecard without a personal balanced/wellness scorecard will never get off the ground.  It is like flying an aeroplane with only one engine or one propeller

2. Send all your managers on a management simulation annually.  Why