Charity boards and the “board experience” conundrum
The lack of experience holding board-keen people back is a real challenge. Advising inexperienced board-keen people to try and become charity board directors is not the answer.
Category: leadership
My super revealing interview question
Ask a candidate why you should not hire them, and you get a lot more insight into their characters than all the preceding questions have given you.
Awareness and leadership
To drive meaningful change, it is essential that leaders have broad awareness and be willing to admit that the status quo does not work. If a leader cannot bring him/herself to admit to being aware of the the very obvious visible to all around us, should they really be leading anything?
Timeless basics for new managers
Classroom lectures in management schools can not equip managers to deal with the contact sport of managing and developing people. These learnings from my experience may resonate.
AI won’t fix hiring biases, but you might
If you want to remove hiring bias, don’t turn to AI; take a leaf from the British civil service’s book and use first-principles thinking to fix the process.