Is it working?
Ghassan KarianLatest thinking on and evidence for progressive workplace leadership, culture and practices. Great data, insights, reading and links.
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Half of your workforce still doesn’t trust leadership - here’s why…
The Gleaners, Jean-Francois Millet, 1857
Corporate trust is a strange creature. On the surface, employees appear compliant, calm, and unperturbed by leadership announcements. They click the “thumbs-up” emoji on town-hall livestreams. They...
Middle managers are becoming the most burned-out role in the western economy
Wandbild Für Einen Fotografen, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, 1925
If you were asked to guess the most exhausted population in the modern workforce, you might aim high: CEOs, CFOs, founders, tech engineers. You’d be wrong. The people burning out f...
Mutual ownership by employees and customers delivers for all
The Third-Class Carriage, Honoré Daumier, 1864
Mutual ownership is the economic idea hiding in plain sight: if the people who create the value also own the value, you get better businesses and a less brittle society.
Shareholder capitalis...
Why employees are right not to trust Internal Communication
The Treachery of Images, Rene Magritte, 1929
A week ago I wrote that employees treat internal communication like a free drink from someone who won’t make eye contact. The IC Index 2026 suggests they might be right to be suspicious.
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Latest IC research is a reality check few asked for - but is sorely needed
A couple of days ago, I presented the findings of this year’s IC Index to a room of a hundred senior internal communication leaders at The Science Gallery. It is a beautiful venue; all exposed steel, clean sightlines, curated thinking. A te...
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