Overcome Your Fear of Failure
Here’s the bottom line: You can't be an effective leader if you're afraid of making mistakes.
And, by the same token: You can’t be an effective leader if, once you’ve made mistakes, you don’t learn from them.
There are plenty of bad leaders around who coast through life in their ivory tower comfort zones. On the one hand, you can't blame them. If it's not broken, why take the trouble to fix it and risk the whole thing blowing up in your face, potentially exposing what an incompetent leader you are? But, on the other hand, if you’re a leader with an ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ attitude, your business won’t evolve. Before you realise it, you’ll be left choking in the exhaust fumes of the more effectively led companies roaring past you, sweeping up your customers and profits as they go.
The Three Biggest Mistakes I’ve Made in Business
In my previous article, I talked about how we all make mistakes in business, and if someone says they haven't, they're almost certainly lying. Either that (P.S. there's no 'either that', they're definitely lying), or they haven't tried hard enough to fail, which says even worse things about their qualifications to be a leader. In fact, it says very bad things about their qualifications to be a human being. All human beings fail, all leaders fail; it's how we learn, grow resilience, and become better at what we do.
Tall vs Flat Organisational Structures: What Are The Pros and Cons?
Did you know that the word ‘organisation’ comes from the Greek word 'oragon', which means 'tool'?
The idea behind it is that an organisation needs to have a structure to function correctly, and all the people inside that structure are the tools that make the organisation work.
That’s ironic when you consider that, in modern-day slang, calling people “tools” is guaranteed not to make you friends, but, according to the ancient Greeks, ‘tools’ are what we all are.
How to Boost Employee Morale and Motivation
If your employees aren’t motivated, two things will happen.
Best case scenario: your business will chug unspectacularly along, doing just enough to stay afloat but never reaching the heights of productivity and performance it could achieve if your employees were motivated to do their best.
Worst case scenario: sooner or later, your business will sink without trace.
What is inclusion in the workplace?
Many people confuse 'workplace inclusion' with 'workplace diversity', but they're two very separate things. Whereas 'workplace diversity' is all about having a wide demographic of people within your organisation, 'workplace inclusivity' is about making everyone in your organisation feel welcome and a valuable part of your team. There's no point in having a diverse workplace if you haven't already got an inclusive workplace to bring all those diverse people into.