In an earlier post on Organizational Resilience and Adversity Quotient, i mentioned the Organizational Resilience Survey which i had developed. It contains twelve statements according to the C.O.R.E. model. There are three statements that measure each of the Control, Ownership, Reach and Endurance dimensions. The statements and the respective dimensions are listed below: Control 1. …
Category: Resilience
L.E.A.D. – The Recipe of Successful Leadership
“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” —Jack Welch One of the most important truths that many new leaders fail to understand is that now their success depends on the success of their followers. One may be a…
Leadership Parable: Benny – The Man on the Bus
This is one of my favorite parables in Leadership. If leadership is influence, then surely we can all be leaders in different aspects. Enjoy. Benny: The Man on the Bus A teacher assigned her 12th-graders to pick a leader and write an essay. Most kids wrote about famous people, but a student named Julius titled…
How SMEs Retain Leaders
In my earlier research for Singapore SMEs, 16.7% of the companies reported no retention strategies for leaders in place. The other companies practice the following strategies: Training and Development – The provision of personal and leadership development courses or programs. These may be done internally or through an external service provider. Career and Job Development…
Organizational Resilience and Adversity Quotient
Organizational resilience has been an increasingly important concept given the uncertainties and turbulence in the world. According to Bhamra et al. (2011), resilience is closely related with the capability and ability of an element to return to a stable state after a disruption and is related to both the individual and organizational responses to turbulence…