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The Chief of Staff
Volume 6, Issue 2. August 2024.
The Journal of The Chief of Staff Association
People and Culture
Caroline Scotter Mainprize
3 min read
Letter from the editor
Structures, stories, shared beliefs, rituals and routines: all organisations have them. They add up to a collective sense of what the organisation is, what sort of personality it has, and how people are expected to behave: that is, the organisational culture, ‘the way we do things round here’.
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Caroline Scotter Mainprize
5 min read
PROFILE
Rose Wachuka Macharia,
Chief of Staff, Office of the Chief Justice & President of the Supreme Court of Kenya
Lawyer, researcher, budding diplomat and public policy specialist: Rose Wachuka Macharia brings diverse past experiences to her position.
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Rhiannon Farr
6 min read
PROFILE
Hope Errico Wisneski,
Chief Operating Officer at Raise the Future and Principal of HEW Strategies, LLC
Hope Wisneski combines her role as a chief of staff with running an external consultancy.
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Jon Heit
8 min read
FEATURED ARTICLE
When cultures collide
Emotions run high during mergers and acquisitions. Jon Heit reflects on his own experience to identify the unique role that the chief of staff can play in facilitating a successful integration.
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Rachel Pacheco, PhD
3 min read
INSIGHT
Think community, not culture
Rachel Pacheco, author of Bringing Up the Boss: Practical Lessons for New Managers, offers chiefs of staff a new perspective on organisational culture.
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David Byrum
6 min read
Insight
Tending the lily pond
David Byrum explores the unique role of the chief of staff in aligning culture and climate.
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Caroline Scotter Mainprize
6 min read
Insight
Partner in resilience
Caroline Scotter Mainprize reviews research from cyber resilience company ISTARI to suggest how a chief of staff can best help their CEO principal lead the organisation to anticipate, withstand, respond, and adapt to cyberattacks.
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Col. Mike Jernigan
10 min read
REFLECTION
Is your culture a secret weapon or a critical weakness?
Organisational culture can be powerful and contagious, says Col. Mike Jernigan, but it must be nurtured and managed.
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Jennifer Simonson-Braun
4 min read
VIEWPOINT
Beyond project management
Hiring managers and principals will often put project management near the top of their wish list of skills in a new chief of staff. But what they usually need is something more: the leadership, governance, communications, and stewardship skills that come with programme management experience.
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