by Zena Everett | Jan 10, 2024 | Zena Everett's Blog
The shadow side of high achievers and the risky business of accidental managers. Deadline-driven, confident and highly competitive, people with Type A personality traits are real go-getters. But as with all strengths, you can have too much of a good thing. The cracks...
by Zena Everett | Sep 13, 2023 | Zena Everett's Blog
Operation Director Curtis* had this problem when he was on one of my leadership programmes. It’s a common one, so I’m featuring it in this month’s article. Let me know if you’d have handled it differently. Ellie,...
by Zena Everett | May 31, 2023 | Zena Everett's Blog
The unsavoury Phillip Schofield affair is more than celebrity gossip. It has some useful lessons for all of us. We really do need to be nice on the way up, or there’ll be plenty of ex-colleagues crawling out of the woodwork to give us a good kicking on the...
by Zena Everett | May 2, 2023 | Zena Everett's Blog
The UK’s deputy prime minister and justice secretary, Dominic Raab, stepped down last month after an independent inquiry concluded that his ‘consistently abrasive behaviour’ had in some cases amounted to bullying. Civil servants were so petrified of disagreeing...
by Zena Everett | Mar 3, 2023 | Zena Everett's Blog
Rescuers are bad managers with kind intentions. The stereotypical bad boss is an insensitive bully. Word soon gets round about them. Harder to spot is another bad boss, the Rescuer. These are compassionate people with a burning desire to help...
