An oasis in a desert of gloom By Dr. Reg Butterfield ___________________________________________________________________________ It is Tuesday afternoon and I set off from my home in Vienna to attend a Hans Zimmer concert at the Zimný štadión Ondreja Nepelu in Bratislava, Slovakia. …

I have been using ChatGPT in clarifying my thinking, looking for related topics I may be overlooking, and gaining insight into how others may view & understand my topic. Until now, my use of ChatGPT has been as a traditional question & answer exercise with some refinement of the question…

An earlier newsletter addressed all the places where managers & leaders can involve others in decision-making (from recognizing symptoms to decision implementation). We now need to address the competency needed to take on this role, especially generating options, determining the selection criteria, and making the decision. …

Leaders don’t know what people want. By Dr. Reg Butterfield 5 minutes read. OK, let’s get straight to the point of this short newsletter, “The leadership hype of the last few decades is causing organisations to flounder because of a lack of management”. In our newsletter 15 January 2023 we…

By Drs. Ross Wirth & Reg Butterfield (2022) Abstract Shared, participative, and other newer forms of leadership are difficult to place within traditional views of leadership and leadership development. DAC (Direction, Alignment, and Commitment) provides a higher-level leadership construct that captures these and traditional leadership models. As a functional view…

Cobra Development By Dr. Reg Butterfield ___________________________________________________________________________ Welcome back to the Cobra Development case study. …

Rethinking Leadership Development An entire industry has been built up around leadership development that rests on a soft foundation tied to the traditional Industrial Era model of organizations. The first questionable practice is determining who gets enrolled in this development. Most people in these programs are judged to be “high…

Cobra Development By Dr. Reg Butterfield 17 minutes read. Welcome back to our “Cobra Development” case study. Today, we continue the induction process for June our new colleague in the team. In our last session with June, we discussed how we have replaced job descriptions, and the structures of functions…

By Dr. Ross Wirth Abstract There is a large gap between the Industrial Era Organization structure and operating style and that of the New Era — too great to close at one time. In response, this is a phased approach that organizations can take across the board or in pockets of…