Leadership Musings
Every year as the year draws to a close and I knock off the mandatory learning hours (KRA hours) I go through books, essays and talks around corporate leadership. As I delve into subjects like bias recognition, conflict and trust management, managing effective teams I cannot help draw parallels to what I see in my day-to-day life. Everybody I know always complains about the boss who does not know anything, about the bad team players and corporate talk has sowed a sense of distrust among the workers. If indeed, the answer was as clear as it is made to seem then why do we still have teams that struggle to work together? Work today doesn’t translate into a fixed 9-5 schedule, there is an expectation on employees to be agile, efficient and adapt quickly to ever changing needs. However, they are not given the liberty to do it on their terms. A great example of this phenomenon is the Work from home conundrum. Many managers see remote work as a major cause of drop in productivity, yet ma...