Barry Roche

The Problem With Success Stories: Why Your Next Client Case Study Should Be A Failure

I told a client once that he needed to get rid of his CFO. She'd been with him for 12 years. They'd been through difficult times together. He looked a …

Understanding The Dark Side Of Personality: Why It Derails Even The Best Leaders

The traits that make leaders successful are often the same ones that derail them.

How Hogan Assessments Reveal The Strengths And Weaknesses In Your Leadership Team

Why Getting Team Effectiveness Right Determines If Your Strategy Works

The Hard Truth: Great CEOs Need Great Coaching… But Do They Get It?

There's a hard truth most CEOs don't want to admit: at some point, experience stops being enough. The skills that got you here don't automatically tak …

About Hogan

In a data-driven world, personality assessments are people analytics. Personality drives human behavior, often in highly predictable ways. Hogan’s per …

Why Founders Don't Get the Real Value Out of Strategic Consultancy Programmes

Leaders Behaving Badly

We’ve all seen it. Blank stares, perpetual disinterest, employees passively looking for other jobs while working for someone else. These are benign sy …

Business Success: Why Timing Accounts for up to 40% (And What Makes Up the Other 60%)

I've experienced both sides of the timing equation in business.

The Politics of Potential

Studies show organizations with strong leadership are 13 times more likely to outperform their competition, and three times more likely to retain thei …

UnderPressure - Stress in the C-Suite

Even before COVID-19, the cost of workplace stress was high: $500 billion to the US economy, 550 million workdays per year,1 60% to 80% of all workpla …

Digital Narcissism

The Rise of the Selfie and Dealing with Shameless Self-Promoters in the Workplace.

Conflict - The Secret to Successful Teams

Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends Report 2016, which reports the findings from a survey of more than 7,000 business leaders in 130 countries, sho …