leadership – Ellery's Essays

What Now?

It’s a question I encounter at the end of every seminar: What Now? Where do we go from here? How do we start? Where do we start? What do we do? Most seminars end with people praising the principles learned but then hardly applying them in real life. Why is it so hard to applyContinue reading “What Now?”

Management is Not Leading, and It Isn’t Staffing Either

First thing I was taught as a management trainee at a large multinational corporation in 1985 was that there are four (4) basic functions to managing. These are: Planning, Organising, Directing, Controlling. In 2021, when I search for “management functions” on the Internet, the results mostly are: Planning. Organising, Leading, Controlling, and Staffing. Leading hadContinue reading “Management is Not Leading, and It Isn’t Staffing Either”