Be inspired
You don’t tend to act unless you’re inspired. And time is precious. So here are ideas and thoughts worth making a little time for.
Understanding and overcoming procrastination
Fuschia Sirois is a professor at Durham University’s Department of Psychology. She is particularly interested in how procrastination, perfectionism, loneliness and traits linked to negative mood adversely affect health, and the qualities that play a role in improving well-being.
Estimates suggest that anywhere between 15% and 25% of the adult population procrastinate regularly. So what this means is that about one in five members of your team are going to be prone to procrastination.
Fuschia Sirois, Professor at Durham University’s Department of Psychology
I get much more satisfaction personally - which makes me more resilient - if I'm present in that moment, in every single meeting, in every single discussion, in every single debate. I just want to be present there.
Taylan Turan, CEO, Retail Banking, HSBC Wealth & Personal Banking
Taylan Turan, CEO, Retail Banking, HSBC Wealth & Personal Banking
Are you fully present in every meeting?
Beyond Just Borrowed Logic: Why Frameworks Alone Can't Build Company Culture
The messiness of growth, change, and human dynamics makes leaders long for clean solutions—answers with structure, process, and predictability. That’s when the consulting frameworks roll in. And with them, something the learning strategist Dwayne Britton calls becoming McKinzered — borrowing off-the-shelf methodologies. Usually from the McKinseys, Deloittes, and Ernst & Youngs of the world—without asking whether these frameworks actually fit their people, culture, or context. As Dwayne puts it, “It’s this over-reliance on really kind of buttoned-up consultant speak, which I think can be like snake oil.”Manageable spoke to Dwayne Britton – a leadership and learning expert known for his candid, human-centered approach to organizational development – about frameworks that offer the illusion of control and how to build a company culture that doesn’t become a straightjacket.
“At the end of the day, there are just human variables that you're not going to be able to count on,” Dwayne says.
Dwayne Britton, Learning Strategist and founder of DAY|WON, former Head of L&D at On
Taylan Turan, CEO, Retail Banking, HSBC Wealth & Personal Banking
Are you fully present in every meeting?
I get much more satisfaction personally - which makes me more resilient - if I'm present in that moment, in every single meeting, in every single discussion, in every single debate. I just want to be present there.
Taylan Turan, CEO, Retail Banking, HSBC Wealth & Personal Banking
The benefits of being a connector within organisations
Martin Kilduff is a professor at UCL School of Management. In his research, he focusses on the importance of social network connections between people and the ways those connections help or hinder in their job performance, career, and their lives more generally.
Social network brokerage means connecting across people who are otherwise disconnected and looking for those ideas that are important in organisational life as well as in everyday life.
Martin Kilduff, Professor of Organisational Behavior at University College London
