Zoe Routh

Zoe Routh is Australia’s leadership expert specialising in the people stuff. She shows leaders and teams struggling with silos and office politics how to work better together. She is the author of People Stuff: Beyond Personality Problems - An Advanced Handbook for Leadership. Zoe Routh is an opinion columnist for the CEOWORLD magazine. Follow her on Twitter or connect on LinkedIn.

Success and Leadership

How to spot and handle undermining behaviour

Success and LeadershipZoe Routh

You may not expect everyone to be your friend at work, but it is reasonable to expect them to be friendly, or at least civil. It can come as a shock if a colleague starts undermining you. It can be subtle at first: they may highlight your mistakes or make...

Executive Insider

How to be an energy broker while under the pandemic pump

Executive InsiderZoe Routh

The pandemic caused a tsunami of emotions for CEOs and their people: shock, fear, frustration, resentment. At the pointy end of decision-making, CEOs have had to make tough calls. In their report Navigating C19 July 2020, researchers reported that amongst UK CEOs, 41% are more anxious than they were before,...

CEO Insights Lifestyle and Travel

Why the pandemic will be the making – and breaking – of leadership legacies

CEO Insights Lifestyle and TravelZoe Routh

Novelist James Lane Allen said, “Adversity does not build character, it reveals it.” In a crisis, who do leaders look out for first? Do they rush to the rails, first into the lifeboats? Or stay on deck, looking after the ship, its crew, and all passengers? Selfishness in leadership can...

CEO Advisory

How to handle those pesky COVID-19 characters: the Complainer, the Slacker, the Leech

CEO AdvisoryZoe Routh

The pandemic has given us plenty of reasons to complain. Restrictions, isolation, panic buying, general distress with all the uncertainty. With quick decisions being made about work arrangements, grumbles have rumbled. The shift to work from home directives or restricted work environments has opened the door to those who would...

Success and Leadership

The 4 Devils of People Stuff and how to prevent them from taking over

Success and LeadershipZoe Routh

In their Harvard Business Review article (2018), Dimmock and Gerken share their research on the contagiousness of employee fraud: they say, "even your most honest employees become more likely to commit misconduct if they work alongside a dishonest individual." Bad behaviour is contagious. So too is good behaviour! The human brain...

CEO Insider

How to be a future savvy leader

CEO InsiderZoe Routh

Anticipating the future is critical to an organisation’s success. In their 2018 research paper, Rohrbeck and Kim cite “Future-prepared firms outperformed the average by a 33% higher profitability and outperform the average by a 200% higher growth”. Being future savvy makes sense for profit and growth. This kind of strategic...

Zoe Routh

How to spot and handle undermining behaviour

How to be an energy broker while under the pandemic pump

Why the pandemic will be the making – and breaking – of leadership legacies

How to handle those pesky COVID-19 characters: the Complainer, the Slacker, the Leech

The 4 Devils of People Stuff and how to prevent them from taking over

How to be a future savvy leader

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