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.

Despite lofty promises, COP-29 ended in disappointment, with little progress on climate finance and a stark failure to address the needs of developing nations facing worsening climate crises.

For their part, organisations are waking up to the fact that, if they want to attract the right talent and investment, linking their purpose to sustainability goals is imperative