Management Perspectives

You do not lose authority because someone disagrees with you. You lose it when your behavior under pressure becomes inconsistent, reactive, or unclear. People watch how you respond when challenged. They decide in those moments whether you are someone who hides behind position or someone who leads the relationship as well as the task.

MYTH 1: Culture is your values, mission, and purpose statements.
MYTH 2: Engagement scores tell you how healthy your culture is.
MYTH 3: Culture is owned by HR.
MYTH 4: Strong cultures should be unified and consistent everywhere.
MYTH 5: Culture is soft, secondary, and separate from performance.

Organisations often forget that their earliest successes were built on curiosity, creativity, and constant reinvention. As AI reshapes the nature of work, these qualities become essential for survival. Reinvention cannot be delegated to innovation teams or episodic transformation initiatives.

Wellbeing, as one of my six steps to workplace happiness, is core to creating happy employees, and that’s why regulating wellbeing must be a priority for organisations, if they are ever going to create happy and profitable places to work.