A business is only as strong as the people working in it. This is true of any business, but when it comes to a startup, the quality of your staff can have a huge impact on your chances of success. While startup founders and entrepreneurs are often idolised for their...
You can spend upwards of 40 hours a week with your co-workers. Have you ever stopped to think that on any given weekday, you could be spending more time with your work family than your actual family? And unfortunately, you can’t choose who that work family is. As is...
A lot of the work we do is with teams. We work with leadership teams, project teams, virtual teams, teams that are thrown together at the last minute and teams that have been together for a long time. And one of the most interesting things we see in teams is how the...
Change is hard. Just ask Borders Bookstore, who went bankrupt after a strategic change saw them investing heavily in CDs and DVDs, right as the industry was going digital. Or Time Warner and AOL, whose merger failed catastrophically because no one accounted for the...
From how we fly our planes to how we order our pizza, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning are transforming how humans experience their everyday lives. Across industries of all kinds - aviation, finance, healthcare, even the creative arts - AI and machine...
Earlier this year, New Zealand was called out for the lack of women holding senior positions in their 27 NZX-listed companies. The country lags behind the UK, US and Australia with 18% of listed companies having zero female directors. Research has shown that having...
Diversity in business is not what you might think. It’s less about gender, race and ethnicity and more about diverse thinking styles. Let’s explore.
Leveraging the full power of diversity has a lot more to do with the brain than you might think. The more thinking styles you have in your organisation, the better.
Here at Herrmann we know that a better understanding of thinking preferences can be transformative in so many different ways. We sat down with Senior Executive Coach Jill Livesey from the Institute of Executive Coaching and Leadership (IECL) to talk a bit about how...
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