The world is a far more complex place than it was even just fifteen years ago. Today’s leaders need to manage many moving parts, contradictory information, connections which are often hard to see and senior managers who have conflicting interests. Many of us enjoy reading about history. I myself majored in modern and ancient history […]
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How Studying the Fall of the Roman Empire can Help Today’s Leaders Manage Complexity
October 19th, 2023 · No Comments · Leadership, Personal Development
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Getting to the Important Stuff
July 27th, 2023 · No Comments · Culture, Leadership, Organizational Culture, Personal Development
Knowing how to manage your time seems like a skill that only junior managers would need to learn how to master. And yet, again and again I work with senior clients who are spending too much time on activities that are not creating long term value. Important but not Urgent Covey’s work back in the […]
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What do you want
June 28th, 2023 · No Comments · Culture, Leadership, Personal Development
One of the hardest things in coaching, or indeed in consultancy, is getting people to the stuff that can really make a difference. So often a coachee, or even a senior management team, will beat around the bush with stories about their problems, about other people or about their competition. As a coach you can […]
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More Serious People
June 2nd, 2023 · No Comments · Culture, Leadership, Organizational Culture, Personal Development
The recent TV series Succession has provided some valuable observations about life in organisations. Series director Mark Mylod always interpreted the story of the Roy family as a Greek Tragedy, where the tragic destiny of the main characters was already set from the very beginning of the series, due to their personal flaws. And so, […]
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Lead like Roosevelt
May 26th, 2023 · No Comments · Leadership
Many people rate Roosevelt the greatest leader of the 20th Century. What made him so great. There are many answers to this questions but let me tell you about just one of them. In Michael Fullilove’s great book, Rendezvous With Destiny, he tells the story how Roosevelt thought out of the box in order to […]
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It’s not personal, it’s systemic
May 16th, 2023 · No Comments · Culture, Leadership, Organizational Culture
Workers think that senior managers are heartless, arrogant and distant. Senior managers think that workers are childlike, blaming everybody and not understanding the need to get on board with the latest initiative. Middle managers are just too run off their feet to think anything at all and clients simply feel ignored and undervalued. If this […]
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Dialogue Improves Results
May 2nd, 2023 · No Comments · Culture, Leadership, Personal Development
Conflict within organisations kill results.
The existence of unnecessary conflict between people in organisations is a real profit killer. The lack of true dialogue we see in our societies today plays out in our organisations, making collaboration between different areas of the business more difficult.
It’s time to get people having real conversations.
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The Problem with Narratives
January 24th, 2020 · No Comments · Leadership
It seems today that everyone has a narrative. It is more than an approach or a general philosophy, it is a line of argument that leads to a given conclusion that does greatly change over time. Facts and data that fit into this narrative are embraced, facts and data that do not, are conveniently ignored. […]
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The responsibility of Leading
August 4th, 2019 · No Comments · Culture, Leadership, Personal Development
I am reading a biography of John Adams, a leading figure during the American war of Independence, one of the authors of the Declaration of Independence and the second president of the United States. I must admit to being a fan of this period of American history, I find it quite extraordinary the quality of […]
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Diversity and Goodwill
July 27th, 2019 · No Comments · Leadership, Organizational Culture
About a week ago American social psychologist and Professor of ethical Leadership at New York University, Jonathan Haidt held two public lectures in Sydney and Melbourne. In Haidt’s most recent book ,The Coddling of the American Mind,published in 2018, he expresses great concerns over the lack of trust between groups with different opinions or world […]
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