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Leadership

5 stories and 5 articles about leadership - what is happening, and what to do about it.

• Article

  Bad management: what the research says a team lead actually changes

  Bad management is usually ordinary, not villainous. What CIPD and iHire found about leaders, why offsites and 360s miss it, and three things to do tomorrow.

• Article

  Poor communication in the workplace: why one more update does not fix it

  Poor communication at work is often a message that was sent and never arrived. What the research says, why another update fails, and what to do.

• Fair Play Talks · 27 days ago

  One in Three CEOs Now Describe Their Own Workplace Culture as Toxic, Reveals Research

  The people running the company now agree with the people working in it: a third of chief executives call their own culture toxic, and two in five employees do. Agreeing on the diagnosis is the easy half. The same study found executives in toxic cultures about twice as likely to report strong growth - the number that lets a board decide the treatment can wait.

• Computer Weekly · 2 October 2026

  UK data regulator restructures amid allegations of 'toxic' workplace culture

  The UK's data regulator has a new name, a new board and a new Manchester headquarters. What it does not yet have is the independent review of its culture that ministers promised in July. Its staff union puts the question every reset has to answer: if it was never one bad apple, a new building is not a new culture.

• HR Executive · 31 August 2026

  Workplace wellbeing: The awareness gap has closed. The execution gap persists

  Awareness was never the bottleneck. Most of these organisations call burnout a strategic risk, and still nearly half have not made wellbeing anybody's actual job. What is missing is not belief but a mechanism - and a mechanism nobody owns is just the last person who cared, until they move team.

• Emergency Services Times · 27 August 2026

  With a focus on culture, staff and patients benefit from the WAST way in Wales

  Real work, and as interesting for what they refused as for what they built - no competency framework, just three principles teams read locally. One thing is missing, as it is from almost every culture programme: a number showing what changed.

• Mirage News · 25 August 2026

  Independent Cultural Review Into Western Power

  A new chief executive asked for it, the minister and board agreed the same week, and two of the country's most credible reviewers were appointed. This is what taking it seriously looks like - and 3,000 people still wait until early 2027.

• Article

  7 Hidden Culprits Sabotaging Your Organizational Culture

  Organisational culture rarely fails loudly. It fails as seven small habits nobody flags in a review, until the exit interviews start rhyming.

• Article

  Navigating an Economic Slowdown - Why Culture Goes First and What Holds It

  In an economic slowdown the culture budget goes first and the culture is needed most. What breaks, why two usual responses fail, and a two-minute alternative.

• Article

  MeaningFuel: the daily culture habit

  A multivitamin and a painkiller for a company's culture. What the daily ritual is, what a module is, and the five things MeaningFuel will not do for anyone.