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Caret consultants have written about many of the recurrent topics of leadership. Here is a selection of articles that have appeared in past bulletins and publications: To share our current thinking click here to visit the Caret blog. If you would like permission to reprint or reproduce anything from the Caret website email: permissions@caret.co.uk
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Our People Are Our Leaving Assets: Spotting and Developing Talent Within Organisations
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Have you ever been to a hotel or restaurant where everything they do convinces you never to return? They actively turn you into a non-customer. Some managers are like that - they turn staff into leavers, creating team conflict, low energy levels, and resistance to change - and often lose all credibility with their teams. They become huge risks to their organisation, losing customers and opportunities and creating inefficiencies.. Click here to download whole article in PDF |
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Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? Good Practice in Mergers and Acquisitions
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Mergers and acquisitions can be like some marriages - once the party's over, you discover that living together is a whole lot harder than was ever envisaged. Click here to download whole article in PDF |
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Thinking The Unthinkable. The importance of imagination in minimising organisational failure
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The average corporate life expectancy currently stands at 14½ years and declining - compared to some business organisations that are over 1,000 years old. It seems evident, therefore, that organisational failure, whether gradual or dramatic, is endemic. Click here to download whole article in PDF |
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A Yearning For Learning: Equipping your staff to take responsibility for their own future
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One of the greatest attributes of human intelligence is the ability to learn. We have been doing it since we first painted pictures on the cave wall to show others how wild animals could be caught. But somewhere along the way we delegated this responsibility to others. Instead of allowing individuals to discover the best way of acquiring skills and knowledge for themselves, the idea was established that we depend upon experts who will share their knowledge with us. Click here to download whole article in PDF |
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Heads You Win, Tails I lose?
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In the game of mergers and acquisitions it is possible to do more than break even? Click here to download whole article in PDF |
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Research shows that leadership only contributes about 20% to the success or failure of an organisation.
Few of us spend much time thinking about the other side of the coin: what constitutes effective followership? Click here to download whole article in PDF |
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Key questions driving current thinking and writing about leadership. Click here to download whole article in PDF |
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Managing Endings as Well as Beginnings
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Once upon a time two caterpillars were sitting on a cabbage leaf enjoying the sun. There was a rustle overhead and a beautiful butterfly glided past. One caterpillar turned to its companion and said 'I could never do a thing like that'. Click here to download whole article in PDF |
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Patrick Lencioni suggests that "Empty value statements tend to create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers and undermine managerial capability". Click here to download whole article in PDF |
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Calm Water Sailing and White Water Rafting: Steering the Correct Course
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Increasingly, leadership is complex, bordering on the chaotic, where few rules exist. Is it perhaps, time for leadership to ditch the notion of ‘great man’ traits such as ‘vigour in pursuit of goals’ in favour of a willingness to engage with uncertainty; to become preoccupied with asking great questions rather than being the 'expert' who provides the answer? And just as important is the skill of listening to others (some leaders are only good at listening to themselves). Click here to download whole article in PDF |
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