leadership; management

Language & Writing

Lessons from the Change of Guard at HSBC

According to the New York Times, HSBC has settled management succession at the top after its current Chairman Stephen Green departs to become UK Trade Minister. It has been a week of tumultuous week of public relations damage control. HSBC is not known to be flamboyant or attention seeking. The

Leadership

What it takes a middle manager to be an effective leader is the right behaviour

Gurus and guru wannabes have made the topic of leadership a vastly profitable speaking circus supported by voluminous publications. The expansive literature on leadership devotes a large amount of space to analysing the characteristics, qualities and styles of successful senior executives. Unfortunately, this analysis is woefully irrelevant, and delivers little