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Bad leadership is a critical problem right now, but it is partly due to an increasingly complex work environment, rather than "bad people", a workplace specialist says.

Some 75% of managers are now experiencing stress and burnout, with over half spending up to five hours per week providing emotional support to their teams, according to new research.

Managers are feeling overwhelmed and ill-equipped to support team members through challenging life events, but employers can take some relatively simple steps to alleviate this, a workplace expert says.

A market-leading L&D program for senior executives highlights leaders are facing the same challenges across multiple countries, while taking different approaches to solving them.

There's a tension in workplaces today between showing empathy and exercising authority, but these things aren't "mutually exclusive", says relationship expert Esther Perel.

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HR can't afford to ignore difficult employees, but focusing on them at the expense of others is like giving too much attention to a child who's throwing a tantrum, a strategist warns.

Managers often fall into the trap of not delegating because they think it would be easier to do things themselves, but this is worse for everybody, according to a leadership specialist.

The best leaders in organisations today are more courageous and kind than in generations past, and committed to making their employees feel safe, a leadership specialist says.

Strategic problems are rarely "solved", so trying to "fix" them often makes things worse, according to a business academic who urges leaders to take a different approach.