by Margaret E Ward | Sep 4, 2026 | Company Culture, Leadership & Management, Women at Work
Did you ever feel that something was just “off” with a colleague, a team or with your boss? Were you the first to realise that lay-offs were about to happen – without any solid facts to support it – or that Sorcha from accounts and Lloyd from sales were secretly...
by Margaret E Ward | Aug 21, 2026 | Company Culture, Work-Life Balance
When we think of peak performance, we visualise medal-winning athletes such as Kate O’Connor, Mark English, Rhasidat Adeleke and Andrew Coscoran. Their stellar performances at the European Championships follow years of physical, mental and emotional discipline. Peak...
by Margaret E Ward | Aug 7, 2026 | Company Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Women at Work
Hard work will always be rewarded. That’s what we’re taught in school. If you learn how to study and apply yourself, good grades and quality jobs will follow. This simple formula is the path to success. Once we enter the workforce, though, we soon realise that the...
by Margaret E Ward | Jul 17, 2026 | Company Culture, Leadership & Management, Work-Life Balance
Happiness: is it your employer’s job to provide it? Many leaders I’ve encountered say “no, staff is paid for doing a job and that’s enough. We don’t need this ‘employees of the week’ lark, birthday cards or baristas for them to work hard.” That’s partly true. Two...
by Margaret E Ward | Jul 3, 2026 | Company Culture, Future of Work, Leadership & Management
The real reason many bosses want everyone back in the office five days a week? Their ego. No joke. New academic research has found what many of us long suspected. Over the last six years, organisational psychologist Adam Grant at the Wharton School at the University...
by Margaret E Ward | Jun 26, 2026 | Company Culture, Leadership & Management
“Be nice to people on your way up the ladder because one day you’ll pass them on the way back down.” This timeless pearl of wisdom was delivered to me by my father when I was starting a short-lived career in investment banking in my early 20s. Dad had moved to New...
