Leadership 2.0

'I defy anybody to be energized by most appraisal systems I have seen in my career' - Sally Bibb Most HR professionals and line managers (present company included!) are used to focusing on the 'development areas' of their staff. The idea is to take the areas of strength for granted and to actively work on their weaknesses to foster their professional development. The question i...

The statistics are sobering, not only do 49% of external executive hires end in failure within 18 months, but internal moves prove to be challenging as well. For instance, 40% of internal job moves involving high potentials also end in failure. Besides the fact that these failures often have a traumatic impact for the individuals involved, the costs for the organizations are huge. Not only in term...

‘We live in a world of organizations - and we do not understand them’ This is one of the statements Henry Mintzberg, one of the leading thinkers in the field of Management, made when I interviewed him for my Leadership 2.0 Podcast about his latest book ‘Understanding Organizations…Finally'. During our conversation, we discussed the following topics: The importance for organizations to get the...

In this episode, I am interviewing Professor Eugene Sadler-Smith of the Surrey Business School about the role of intuition in decision-making processes. During our conversation, we discussed the following topics: 1 What intuition is and what it is not 2 The two types of intuition 3 Adopting an Ambidextrous Mindset 4 How to take important decisions in business 5 Carl Jung and Intuition 6 Why the in...

Scenario thinking enables organizations to establish possible visions of the future in the form of scenarios. This enables decision-makers to think through the different ways in which the environment of their institutions could evolve in the future, based on different sets of assumptions. One of the companies that is best known for its scenario-thinking activity is Shell.  For decades, Shell’s sce...

In this episode, I am interviewing Vlad Gheorghiu about mental health in the workplace, a highly relevant topic. Why?  The World Health Organization estimates that 12 billion working days are lost every year due to depression and anxiety. This costs $1 trillion in lost productivity. McKinsey research showed that ‘60 % of employees have experienced at least one mental-health challenge at some point...

In this episode, I am interviewing Eugene Sadler-Smith about hubristic leadership. A highly relevant topic in the light of the corporate scandals we faced in the last two decades, as well as the current geo-political tensions we are seeing around us.  None of these would have happened without hubristic leaders. During our conversation, Eugene and I discussed the following topics: 03:00 The meaning...

Everyone is an expert in leadership development, or at least has an option about it!  For this reason, I decided to interview Professor Ayse Yemiscigil. Ayse Yemiscigil, Ph. D., is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business and a Research Affiliate with the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University.  In February 2023, she, Dana Born,...

Current thinking in Psychology is that there are five dimensions we can use to describe the most important personality dimensions. Dr. Ralph Piedmont discovered the 6th one: 'the Numinous'. The five-factor model of personality (FFM) is a set of five broad trait dimensions or domains, often referred to as the “Big Five”: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism (sometim...

'The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology'.  With this quote from Edward O. Wilson,  Matt Nixon answered my question if our requirements about leadership have changed in the last decades.  Matt Nixon has more than 30 years of experience as a management consultant and HR executive, working with CEOs and sen...

In this episode of the Leadership 2.0 podcast, I am interviewing Arend Ardon about how leaders can create deep, and sustainable behavioral change in their organizations. Arend Ardon (1967) is a management consultant and co-founder and co-owner of the Change Studio, a consultancy firm specializing in change management.  He is a leading thinker in this area and has published dozens of articles and b...

In this episode, I am interviewing Saskia Schepers about unleashing the power of neurodiversity in the workplace. Saskia Schepers studied organizational science and works as a creative brain, consultant, project manager, speaker, trainer, and coach. She recently wrote a book titled ‘Als alle breinen werken - Waarom ruimte voor neurodiversiteit op het werk goed is voor idereen'.  In English: ...

John Hollwitz is a University Professor of psychology and rhetoric. Before coming to Fordham, he was the A.F. Jacobson Professor of Communications at Creighton University and dean of arts and sciences at Loyola College in Maryland. He also has been the vice president of academic affairs at Fordham. Professor Hollwitz's teaching interests include management; experimental/quasi-experimental des...

Sophia Town, Ph. D., is an assistant professor of organizational behavior at the Gabelli School of Business. As a qualitative researcher, Dr. Town explores how leaders can cultivate both knowledge and wisdom in service of individual, organizational, and societal flourishing.  During our conversation, we discussed, amongst others, the following topics : - Our changing expectations from leaders - Le...

I am a big proponent of the work of Carl Jung and the business world could benefit from his insights. Therefore, I was pleased to have the opportunity to talk to Murray Stein about applying Jungian Analytical Psychology in the workplace.  Interestingly enough we met on labor day, something Jung would call undoubtedly label as synchronicity!    Murray Stein is a graduate of Yale University (B.A. an...