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Perspectives on leadership, context and performance

Articles, frameworks and tools on contextual leadership, talent strategy and organisational performance.

Fieldwork research

Why capable leaders fail in the wrong situation

Most leadership research asks what makes leaders effective in general. We are asking a different question: why capable people sometimes underperform in specific situations. It takes about six minutes, responses are confidential and reported only in aggregate, and we will send you the findings when the report is published.

Whitepaper

Leadership contexts and capability shifts

How ownership, business fundamentals, organisational health and operations change what effective leadership looks like.

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Article

From talent processes to a leadership system

Why isolated HR and talent initiatives rarely move the needle on strategy execution.

Perspective

PE ownership as a leadership context

What changes in leadership requirements when a company moves under PE ownership or brings in new investors.

Perspective

Group architecture as a leadership context

Why where a leader sits within a corporate group changes the capability profile as much as who owns it.