Archives For Team Building

Dev Randhawa discusses management.

If a recent article in Fast Company is to be believed, it appears that traditional management is facing some pretty stiff competition from new trends such as ‘distributed leadership’ and ‘holacracy’.

In the last few years, companies have increasingly looked to using these new, ‘flat’ organizational structures for their businesses. Companies like Zappos, Medium and Buffer (all online companies, I might add) have adopted such structures and have seen mixed results.

I’ve decided to look into these new flat styles and conclude on their use outside of the more ‘cutting-edge’ online sector. Continue Reading…

Dev Randhawa writes about decision-making skills.

Today I’ve decided to look into the process of decision-making and how it can be improved, even in stressful situations. Continue Reading…

Dev Randhawa discusses likeability as a factor for CEO success.

Traditional wisdom says that ‘current financial performance’ often decides a CEO’s fate. But according to Forbes, in a poll of 286 organizations that have fired their CEOs, the most popular reason cited for taking this decision (at 31%) was ‘poor change management.’ This raises questions about what it takes to make a business a success. Does CEO ‘likeability’ play a role and if so, how large? Continue Reading…