by Liz Villani | Apr 4, 2019 | From Courageous Success, Growth, Inspiration
“Kindness in leadership has great power.” Dame Cilla Snowball (great name!) in a Management Today article about what she has learnt about leadership over her career. She was previously leader of advertising giant AMV BBDO, and has worked with many high...
by Liz Villani | Apr 1, 2019 | From Courageous Success, Growth, Inspiration
“The top two reasons thousands of people in a Gallup study gave for being promoted to manager were: 1) success in a prior non-management role and 2) tenure.” There is much opinion around from observers of business and industry, that management skills are...
by Liz Villani | Mar 21, 2019 | From Courageous Success, Inspiration
Finland is the happiest country in the World! Happiness has been in the news this week as it was World Happiness Day on Wed 20th March, and the Annual World Happiness report was released revealing which countries are the happiest. As CNN reported, countries are ranked...
by Liz Villani | Mar 14, 2019 | From Courageous Success, Inspiration
“Wealthy, Successful & Miserable”, how Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Charles Duhigg, recently described successful American workers in “My Times” Magazine this year. Spending a few days in New York this week for Courageous Success, I have been observing...
by Liz Villani | Mar 7, 2019 | From Courageous Success, Inspiration
Bad company culture costs UK economy £23.6 billion. (BreatheHR survey) HRGrapevine shared some great examples this week of bad company culture – office ‘rules’ being implemented and then backfiring spectacularly. The examples included men rebelling in hot...
by Liz Villani | Feb 28, 2019 | From Courageous Success, Growth, Inspiration
75% of the reasons people quit work are things that managers can influence (Marcel Schwantes, Inc.). 75% of the reasons people quit comes down to their managers (Gallup). Many of us can think of a teacher, or a friend, who we totally “got” and who totally “got us”. ...
