Army Leaders: Your Open Door Opens Doors
The British Army of 2023 faces a wide array of challenges. Fortunately for the organisation, amongst the turbulence, there exists a remarkable group of individuals...
Tag : management
Making Change Happen in the Army
Introduction In a world where the speed of change is ever-increasing, keeping pace and adapting is crucial to the Army’s ability to maintain relevance and...
Bosses Get Bullied Too: Exploring Upward Bullying
Let me paint a picture. You have just joined a team as a new manager and you have a member of staff who appears to...
Why ‘Good Enough’ Isn’t Good Enough: Abandoning Time-Based Promotions
“It is what it is” is one of the most harmful sayings in the British Army’s lexicon. Accompanied with a shrug of the shoulders and...
Are we all process monkeys now?
Do you spend your day answering emails, ticking off training objectives and signing forms, or are you pursuing organisational priorities and building valuable things? Much...
Unhelpful Semantics – The Leadership/Management Divide
There is an ongoing discussion about the difference between leadership and management and how both ‘skills’ should be balanced. It is an artificial split of...
Second Order Sexism?
I have a confession. I tweet. A lot. I tweet about dogs. I tweet about baking. I tweet about Defence. Worst of all, in some people’s eyes, I do it from...
Leading From Home
Working from home is a fact of life for all of us because of COVID-19. Let's change to make the most of it, argues WR...
Denial of Virtue Services: Senior Leader Words and Actions
September 2019 has seen three incidents of Senior Leader behaviour that are difficult to reconcile with the UK Military’s public calls to “fail fast” and an...
There is no Accounting for Time
This article proposes that the Armed Forces account for people’s time in a new way. Instead of looking at years served it should look at...