Editor’s Note – April 2016

Welcome to the April 2016 issue of People & Purpose – the Positive Leadership Journal.
In the Northern Hemisphere spring has now firmly sprung, the sun has come out and new shoots are appearing. At this time of year our thinking naturally turns to new starts and growth.

Please get in touch and let us know what are your growth plans? Are there any new developments you are working on? We would enjoy hearing from you via e-mail, or tweet us @People_Purpose.

In our feature interview I spoke with Boomy Tokan, and asked him about the key drivers for business growth, especially in the start-up phase. We also consider growing your team in Fiona McPhail’s 101 article on the best approach to employee selection.

Judy Apps challenges us to give up ‘thing talk’ in order to communicate and connect with others on a human level. We also share Dan Ariely’s excellent TED talk on what makes us feel good about our work and I prepared a brief piece for you on setting clear expectations to encourage high performance. As promised when it won its category in Management Book of the Year 2016, we review Bernard Marr’s book Big Data.

I hope that you are finding People & Purpose to be an interesting source of thinking on purposeful leadership, organisational strategy, change management and team development.

We would welcome suggestions for future contributors. Is there a leader you would like to hear more from, a manager we should interview, or a consultant, specialist or speaker who has worthwhile views to share? If so please tell us at support@peopleandpurposejournal.com.