Be inspired

You don’t tend to act unless you’re inspired. And time is precious. So here are ideas and thoughts worth making a little time for.

Guide

The three stages on the journey to becoming expert

Roger Kneebone is an author and Imperial College professor who directs its Centre for Engagement and Simulation Science. He researches what experts from different fields can learn from one another. His first career was as a surgeon. He then changed direction twice: he became a GP and then an academic.

Becoming an expert isn’t a shortcut - it’s years of ‘doing time,’ making mistakes, and steadily building the judgment and wisdom that let you navigate the unexpected.

Roger Kneebone, Emeritus Professor and co-director of the Imperial College Centre for Engagement and Simulation Science

I get much more satisfaction personally - which makes me more resilient - if I'm present in that moment, in every single meeting, in every single discussion, in every single debate. I just want to be present there.

Taylan Turan, CEO, Retail Banking, HSBC Wealth & Personal Banking

Conversations

Taylan Turan, CEO, Retail Banking, HSBC Wealth & Personal Banking

Are you fully present in every meeting?

Guide

The importance of being cognitively flexible in a world full of distractions

Naomi de Barra is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist who is excited about bringing great psychology to the workplace, to make businesses and people more productive. She has almost 20 years of business experience in FMCG, Pharmaceuticals, Recruitment and Healthcare. Her areas of interest are Neurodiversity, Leadership and Selection and Assessment.

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Brigitte West, Executive Director of Product at DrDoctor

Brigitte West is Executive Director of Product at DrDoctor and Co-Founder of Health Tech Hive, a network of change-makers who are building technology solutions to the world’s biggest health challenges.

Articles

The Great Manager Training Robbery: Five Maxims For Better Development

By Farley Thomas, first published by Forbes Business Council in March 2026.

ARTICLEs

Five Tips For Curing Overnight Leader Syndrome

There’s really not a lot that’s innate about achieving business outcomes through other people. Based on working globally with thousands of managers and leaders for decades, I’m convinced that achieving work outcomes through humans is a craft that can be mastered. Evidence has been piling up in favor of continuous upskilling of managers, from first-time team leads to organization-wide leaders.

We know managers can massively affect employees’ health. We know they obviously affect careers. We know they can impact confidence and self-esteem. And yet, we let them muddle through overnight, wreaking havoc.

By Farley Thomas, first published by Forbes Business Council in April 2026.

Articles

The Great Manager Training Robbery: Five Maxims For Better Development

By Farley Thomas, first published by Forbes Business Council in March 2026.

Articles

Leaders as inclusive Connectors

Great leaders throughout organisations have certain superpowers, one of which I call Connectivity.

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How To Interrupt Your Team Without Being Rude

Imagine you’re explaining an idea to your team. You’re mid-sentence, carefully laying out your thoughts, when someone cuts you off. Frustrating, right? It might feel like your team isn’t listening or dismisses your opinions entirely. But what if we told you that interruption might actually make the conversation better?

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How to End Conversations Like a Pro

At its core, conversations are also deals – not just exchanges of words, but negotiations of meaning, where each person brings their perspectives to the table and leaves with something of value.

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Beyond Just Borrowed Logic: Why Frameworks Alone Can't Build Company Culture

The messiness of growth, change, and human dynamics makes leaders long for clean solutions—answers with structure, process, and predictability. That’s when the consulting frameworks roll in. And with them, something the learning strategist Dwayne Britton calls becoming McKinzered — borrowing off-the-shelf methodologies. Usually from the McKinseys, Deloittes, and Ernst & Youngs of the world—without asking whether these frameworks actually fit their people, culture, or context. As Dwayne puts it, “It’s this over-reliance on really kind of buttoned-up consultant speak, which I think can be like snake oil.”Manageable spoke to Dwayne Britton – a leadership and learning expert known for his candid, human-centered approach to organizational development – about frameworks that offer the illusion of control and how to build a company culture that doesn’t become a straightjacket.

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Has 'Leader as Coach' got lost in translation?‍

The winner of the 2020 Warren Bennis Prize—for the top leadership article published in Harvard Business Review—was The Leader as Coach. When I first read it, I felt validated. I didn't wonder then why the article wasn't called The Manager as Coach. It felt great to see illustrious people eloquently capturing an idea I’d also been championing for years: a coaching style of leadership is the main driver of performance and well-being over the long term.That belief had already shaped my work with CEOs and their teams across industries. It inspired me to co-found Manageable (coincidentally) in 2020, with the aim of giving everyone at work the gift of a great manager—rather than the accidental variety. How? By inspiring managers to confidently practise a coaching style of leadership.

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Why Coach Your Team?

Most management advice focuses on what you should do—set clear expectations, drive results, build processes. But what if the most impactful thing you could do as a manager isn't what you do, but how you do it? Both Google and Gallup—organizations obsessed with measuring what works—have independently arrived at the same conclusion: The best managers aren't bosses. They're coaches.

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Is it stress or microstress that you need to manage?

When it comes to stress, we tend to think about big challenges and setbacks. However, managing microstress is just as - if not more - important. These are small, difficult bumps in the road that we often dismiss as trivial, but they may be more significant than we think.

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Bothered about the Great Resignation and Quiet Quitting? Help your managers to use the human touch.

"A company is not really much more than the people that make up that company" says Ambre Soubiran, CEO of Kaiko, in the Manageable Conversations podcast, where leaders talk frankly about themselves and organisational issues.

Conversations

Taylan Turan, CEO, Retail Banking, HSBC Wealth & Personal Banking

Are you fully present in every meeting?

Taylan Turan, CEO, Retail Banking, HSBC Wealth & Personal Banking

Conversations

Brigitte West, Executive Director of Product at DrDoctor

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Natasha Frangos, Managing Partner at haysmacintyre

Natasha Frangos is Managing Partner at haysmacintyre. She specialises in advising ambitious, scaling businesses operating in the UK and globally in the creative, media and technology industries.

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Ian Constance, CEO of the Advanced Propulsion Centre UK

Are you comfortable challenging others and being challenged in return? Ian Constance, CEO of Advanced Propulsion Centre UK, talks about this motto of his and why it's easy to say and hard to implement.

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James Hollow, CEO and Founder of Fabric

James Hollow is the Founder and CEO of Fabric, a Strategic Design and Sustainability consultancy based in Japan.

Conversations

Chia-Lin Simmons, CEO of LogicMark

Chia-Lin Simmons is the CEO of LogicMark and an early leader in AI and IoT.

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Tony Jamous, CEO & Founder of Oyster

Tony Jamous is the CEO and Founder of Osyter, the automated global employment platform that removes barriers to remote work and distributed hiring. Oyster is the second Unicorn that Tony has founded.

Conversations

Jennifer Nuckles, CEO at R-Zero

Jennifer Nuckles is Chairperson & CEO at R-Zero, the biosafety technology company dedicated to making indoor spaces safer, healthier and more productive.

Conversations

Petr Baron, CEO of tbi bank

Petr Baron is CEO of tbi, the challenger bank that is one of the most profitable in Southeastern Europe. In this episode, Petr talks about:

Conversations

Luca Schnettler, CEO of Qumata

In this episode of Manageable Conversations, Luca Schnettler, CEO of Qumata, the Insurtech scaleup, talks about:

Guide

The benefits of being a connector within organisations

Martin Kilduff is a professor at UCL School of Management. In his research, he focusses on the importance of social network connections between people and the ways those connections help or hinder in their job performance, career, and their lives more generally.

Social network brokerage means connecting across people who are otherwise disconnected and looking for those ideas that are important in organisational life as well as in everyday life.

Martin Kilduff, Professor of Organisational Behavior at University College London

Guide

Understanding and overcoming procrastination

Fuschia Sirois is a professor at Durham University’s Department of Psychology. She is particularly interested in how procrastination, perfectionism, loneliness and traits linked to negative mood adversely affect health, and the qualities that play a role in improving well-being.

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Celebrating neurodiversity and the power of small changes

Over the past decade Michael Barton has educated and inspired thousands of people on the power of neurodiversity. He is autistic himself and has written three books on the subject and contributed to numerous others. He focuses on the positive aspects of autism, relating its traits to those displayed by some of the most successful people in history.

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The importance of being cognitively flexible in a world full of distractions

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The power of unpredictable brilliance in leadership

Itay Talgam is an orchestral conductor who now teaches leadership to Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits and universities. He speaks at conferences around the world, including TED, Google's Zeitgeist, and the World Economic Forum at Davos. Drawing on his experience as a 'conductor of people' he strives to create human harmony through cooperation.

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Understanding and bridging generational differences in teams

Dr Eliza Filby is a writer, speaker and researcher who specialises in what she calls 'Generational Intelligence', helping organisations understand generational shifts within politics, society and the workplace. Her writing has been published in The Times, The Mail Spectator, Guardian and the Financial Times. She published her first book 'God and Mrs Thatcher' in 2014 and is currently writing about ageing in the 21st century.

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Exploring the nature and power of a coaching style

Farley Thomas is the Co-Founder of Manageable. He is also a CEO coach and adviser. He's run global business units and functions at one of the world's biggest banks. In this guide, he shares his views on why a coaching style is important, what it is and how to acquire it.

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Measuring and fostering diversity in organisations

Suhair Khan works within the international creative industries to drive meaningful impact. In over a decade at Google, her work has spanned arts and culture, early stage product design, sustainability, strategy and innovation. She has led global projects with artists, cultural institutions, fashion brands and the creative sector for Google Arts & Culture. In 2020, she founded the non-profit platform openended.design to support artists, designers, and creative technologists.

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Practical tips and techniques to thrive, rather than survive

Keith Goddard is an Occupational Psychologist and Sports & Exercise Psychologist. He uses his expertise to help people, teams and organisations achieve extraordinary things - be it in the boardroom or in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. He's regularly called upon to develop and deliver well-being, resilience and change programmes.

Guide

The three stages on the journey to becoming expert

Tools

Building Trust Quickly

The evidence suggests that the longer we know people or brands, the more we trust them. A study of the 100 most trusted brands in the USA found that only two were created in the past 20 years. Time is of the essence when it comes to trust, but what if we don’t have decades to build trust? We need hacks.

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Learning Effectively

When you really need to learn, how do you go about this? And if you help others learn, what really helps?

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Making Decisions

We’re all experienced decision makers. We make tens of thousands of decisions a day, often without thinking.

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Correcting Predictions

The following four-step approach to correcting errors in prediction is proposed by experts in decision-making and judgement. The approach is illustrated with two examples.

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Boosting Wisdom

This exercise will help you and your team think more wisely by using the power of psychological distance.

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Fostering Healthy Dissent

Groups tend to make better decisions when people can express divergent views. When we don’t conform and choose to dissent, it’s usually not because we don’t care what others think or because we want to be difficult. We usually dissent because we want to be useful to the groups we belong to. It’s because we care a lot about the group.

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Personal Growth Framework

This framework offers a way to clarify and manifest your ambitions. It helps you to say yes to the right things and no to the rest. It helps to create momentum to fulfil these ambitions and creates opportunities to celebrate your achievements.

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Getting Ahead Of The Curve

Use a mathematical concept to get ahead of the curve.