Judith's articles

I love to write, however it can be really hard to maintain writing in multiple places!

Therefore I publish most of my own writing (I'm also HRZone's Leadership Columnist) at my business magazine: The Maverick Paradox Magazine.

Click below to be directed straight to my articles.

The Maverick Paradox Magazine

The Maverick Paradox Magazine is an innovative, first of its kind magazine, for business owners and professionals. Click here if you want to go direct to the magazine.

Psychological Oxygen™ – It keeps your systems breathing

Judith Germain defines Psychological Oxygen™ as the atmosphere that decides whether an organisation can think under pressure. When truth and thinking can move freely, systems breathe, adapt, and perform. When they can’t, cultures suffocate in polite dysfunction. Learn how to design breathable leadership across all four pillars of Maverick Leadership™.

Leadership in culture – The Maverick Command Crew Series

Maverick Leadership isn’t rebellion - it’s integrity in motion. Through Captain Kirk, we see intelligent disobedience paired with execution: psychological oxygen, DRIVEN™ decisiveness, Maverick Power used well, and Impact that turns vision into traction. This is calibrated motion - aligning logic, emotion, and purpose until the system holds under pressure.

The certainty trap: Why change fails before it starts

Change rarely fails in conflict - it fails in hesitation. “Certainty addiction” keeps leaders waiting for proof instead of moving with purpose. Drawing on years of research, Judith Germain introduces the Change Eagerness Matrix™ - revealing how Change Eager Leaders use Strategic Influence to embed change into execution and build systems that hold under pressure.

Why psychological safety is the engine

People often treat psychological safety as a soft concept - a side dish served during change. In Maverick Leadership, it's the whole operating system: the hard capacity of a system to carry truth under pressure and the quiet engine that keeps leadership in motion

His boss took the credit. Now he knows the system

Credit theft isn’t an accident - it’s a symptom of toxic leadership systems that reward noise over integrity. This article explores why managers steal credit, how capable people remain visible through consistency, and why genuine influence always outlasts imitation.

Organisational failure – survival depends on design

Organisations rarely collapse because of bad strategy — they fail because design and execution are disconnected. True resilience comes from aligning how people think, decide, and act under pressure. This article explores how Executional Leadership turns structure into traction and ensures strategy survives first contact with reality.

Echoes don’t build empires: Demand original thinking

Echoes don’t build empires: Why real authority demands original...

The quiet collapse of leadership culture

This October feels quieter - but silence doesn’t mean stability. Judith Germain reveals how leadership systems drift toward collapse and what to do about it.

When silence speaks: quiet collapse of leadership culture

When leaders stop listening and teams stop speaking, cultures collapse quietly. This article explores how organisational silence erodes trust, weakens decision making, and destroys execution under pressure - and what leaders must do to restore integrity and impact.
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