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Robin Stuart-Kotze is a founder of the consultancy Behavioural Science Systems, whose clients include P&O, BP, Oracle, and Johnson & Johnson. He- more about Robin Stuart-Kotze »
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- Thinking About a Career Change?
- Lifelong careers are rapidly becoming a thing of the past, at least in western Europe and North America. People now have more than three career changes during their working life, according to statistics. But what does that mean exactly? The University of Nebraska defines career change as...
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- Conventional Wisdom is Wrong
- Jo Owen missed out one dangerous phrase from his list -- conventional wisdom. Business phrases like best practice, standard procedure, and accepted wisdom reflect a static position based in the past. Professor Jeff Pfeffer here in an interview with Guy Kawasaki says that "when companies follow prevailing conventional wisdom, they...
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- Attitude vs. Experience: Which is More Valuable?
- Â Is it better to hire people on the basis of their experience or their potential? If you believe experience is preferable, and that age equates with experience, there's no better time than now. By 2011 about half UK workforce will be over 40,...
- Blog posts 2008-11-28
- Forget "Talent" and Start Keeping Score
- Â The sharp downturn in the world economy has changed the nature of the talent business. It's suddenly gone from frantically trying to recruit bright and able people to focusing on keeping and developing them. A chief executive of a large British company recently...
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Why New Leaders Fail
- Â Moving into a leadership role is far from easy. Rarely are you given a blueprint of what it takes to be successful. New leaders are left to work that out for themselves. But there are a couple of big banana skins they can avoid if they...
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- Overcome Your Fear of Failure
-  Fear of failure can prevent people from doing various things, but fear of success also gets in the way. We develop our self-concept from an early age and once it is formed, it is difficult to change. We “know†what we can -- and cannot --...
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- Why Failure Means Success
- Why are people afraid of failure? Failure's not just part of life, it's essential to life -- and to success. Henry Ford put it most eloquently: "Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently". You can't learn if you don't fail. Anyone who thinks...
- Blog posts 2008-10-23
- Whatever... Why Employees Stop Caring About Work
- Employee engagement is a comparatively new term, but the concept is old. We used to call it commitment or involvement. Even without research, common sense dictates that if you're keen, committed and involved -- and these attitudes are supported, respected, encouraged and rewarded...
- Blog posts 2008-10-16
- Do Strong Leaders Destroy Leadership?
- Â Google "leadership" and you'll get around 163 million entries. Search Amazon for books on leadership and you'll get 39,000 results. A search for leadership articles takes you into the millions. Leadership isn't a concept, it's an industry. The modern business press have glorified...
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Keep Your Temper -- Or Lose Your Talent
- Organisational life can be highly frustrating at times. But how you respond to pressure can have a significant and lasting effect on those around you. We pay far more attention to people's behaviour than we do to what they say, especially if the verbal message is unclear...
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
- What's So Great About Humility?
- Jim Collins, the author of "Good to Great", wrote that Level 5, or 'great', leadership involves being modest and considerate. Level 5 leaders "build enduring greatness through a paradoxical blend of personal humility and professional will". Oh yeah? Tell that to Jack Welch, Larry Ellison, Richard Branson,...
- Blog posts 2008-09-01
- Why Great Ideas Go To Waste
- Are you creative? There's a mistaken belief that very few people are creative and that the rest of us poor plods couldn't come up with an original idea if it were served to us on a platter. Quotes like: "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a...
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Your Boss Could be Killing You
- There should be a health warning stamped on the foreheads of bad bosses: "Working for this person could be damaging to your heart." Research published last month in the Occupational and Environmental Medicine journal showed that people working for bad bosses have a significantly increased risk of...
- Blog posts 2008-12-12
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- Who are your best people?; how to find, measure and manage your top talent
- Who are your best people?; how to find, measure and manage your top talent. Stuart-Kotze, Robin and Chris Dunn. Financial Times Prentice Hall 2008 182 pages $25.00 Paperback HF5549 Stuart-Kotze (chairman, Behavioural Science Systems...
- Articles 2009-02-01
- Who Are Your Best People?
- [Books] Who Are Your Best People? Robin Stuart-Kotze and Chris Dunn, FT Prentice Hall, £14.99 ***** This book goes right to the heart of a modern management conundrum: how to find the right people, motivate and retain them, in a culture of young managers who do not necessarily...
- Articles 2009-01-22
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