Creating Enlightened Organisations
Leadership is all about creating order from chaos. My son has far more Lego than he needs. I didn’t have Lego as a child – I may be compensating. Anyone who has more than a couple of Lego sets in their home knows how quickly entropy occurs: the pieces get mixed up… the buildings and … Read more Leadership is Creating Order From Chaos
My guess is that you’re a pretty talented person. You have skills. You figure things out. You work hard to do the best job you can. And if you’re anything like me, you can’t help but notice that there are people around you who aren’t pulling their weight. They might be slacking off, ‘phoning it … Read more Compassion: Assuming the Best in Others
It’s easy to make excuses. To think of a million reasons why you haven’t fulfilled your obligation… whatever the obligation is. I didn’t write a blog article for about six months… why? In my case – it was winter, work got busy, family life was busy, I published my first book… The thing is though, … Read more Obligation: What To Do When It Steals Your Joy
There are always excuses available to you. Always. If you fly regularly, you’ve probably noticed that there are lots of things that the flight crew – both those inside the cockpit and outside it – do consistently… the same way… every time. There are checklists and shiny big signs and flags on things reminding people … Read more Excuses: Why Great Leaders Never Make Them
They say it’s lonely at the top. They also say it isn’t. Or it shouldn’t be. Most of the people who say it isn’t are senior execs who haven’t cracked CEO yet, or Founder CEs running their companies like communes (I don’t mean that as a bad thing, by the way). If, however, you are employed … Read more Virtual Mentors: Build Your Support Team
There is a great deal of irony in the human desire to see New Year’s Day as an opportunity to begin again: to turn over a new leaf… to renew… to resolve to be different. The irony stems from the fact that it is our own egoic brain (and in some cases our collective egoic brain that … Read more Calendars, Resolve and the Human Condition
Regeneration When I published my book in June I was exhausted. I felt like I’d put all my best ideas and work out on the table… laid it all bare for everyone to see… and yet I knew in my heart of hearts that wasn’t true. Still, I lost my mojo. I procrastinated. Probably I … Read more Picking Up Where We Left Off… Like Old Friends
One of the most common ways that management and individual contributors find themselves at loggerheads, is the sense that each has that the other isn’t paying enough attention to something that they value highly – the individual contributor is frustrated that leadership isn’t paying enough attention to why the subtle differences between thing A and … Read more Detail or Big Picture: The Not-So-Obvious Truth
I’m not too proud to admit that as an impressionable ‘tween’ I had a girl-crush on Vanilla Ice. In fact, if you’d popped round to our house for a cuppa, you’d probably find me in the lounge playing Ice Ice Baby at full volume, singing and dancing as though no one was watching (which thankfully they … Read more Problem Solving: If Ya Gotta Problem… Yo, I’ll Solve It
Have you ever cared about something so much that it hurts? Maybe a person – a loved one, or a cause? Have you ever felt a lump forming in your throat just thinking about the what-ifs? An emotional overwhelm so big it threatens to engulf you? I have. Or should I say, I do. In the … Read more Emotional Overwhelm – When Your Feelings are Just Too Big