Leadership Styles: is your boss a fox or a jackal

July 8, 2006 | article by Ken Thompson in Team Leadership Development (77)

A new UK survey identifies 5 types of office bosses: tigers, gorillas, sloths, jackals and foxes and suggests ways you can tame each of them.

Can you spot your leader?

Tigers - Sleek, stealthy, predatory and deadly

Gorillas - likes to terrify subordinates by showing anger

Sloths – hiding away, looking for a quiet life

Jackals - attack their victims only after another predator has bought them down

Foxes - Cunning and clever, able to outwit and outflank everyone

In this survey of 340 people conducted by Jet UK 84% of UK office workers like working with their bosses, 63% are looking for a fair boss and 19% someone who’s approachable and fun.

The command-and-control approach of Apprentice star and Amstrad boss Sir Alan Sugar did not go down well either :deemed the boss from hell by over 30% of respondents, with the fictional David Brent following close behind at 27%.

See Team Leadership: Stone Age Management fights back for more on command and control leadership.

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Organisations are complex living systems claims leading scientist

August 6, 2005 | article by Ken Thompson in Book Reviews (37)

Fritjof Capra says organisations are not just like living systems - they are living systems! In his latest book, The Hidden Connections, Fritjof Capra, acclaimed physicist and author of the Web of Life and the Tao of Physics, challenges us to go beyond the metaphor and see to what extent human organisations can literally be understood as living systems.

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