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Next week I will be taking a dozen leaders through a workshop where they will be forced (in the politest way) to think through their business plans and present their strategies in a powerful and engaging way.
Many are praised as strong leaders. But beneath the spectacle, we see leadership missteps that let players - and often employees - off the hook.
There are a few elements to dissect through an accountability lens.
Why would anyone donate time, money, and effort back to the entity we consume from? What fuels this extra effort in a time poor world? And, how does this translate to our businesses and teams at work?
It can't just be me.
Over the past month I have seen a worrying leadership pattern emerge with clients, colleagues, and friends…
To understand how Luke Donald captained the European Team to a historic win in New York a couple of weeks ago, we need to see how his leadership is steeped heavily following others…
The problem can get ugly. Especially when foreseeable trends are not acted upon.
Steven Sasson experienced this when he invented the digital camera in 1975 as a part of the R&D department at Kodak…
Last week, a Regional Manager (let’s call him RM) working for a construction company was working through a strategy to instil and uplift ownership into his team and frontline workers in one of my workshops.
There is a business out there losing over 20% of their staff annually. Where HR reports 44% of their staff not being able to achieve their goals and 77% identifying as exhausted or fatigued.
A few weeks ago I had a meeting with a potential client across town. The meeting was great. I met with intelligent people, engaging in real commercial challenges, and wanting to do purposeful work…
Watching professional sport may be considered entertainment but in my world, it is study. This is why I crave Light Entertainment when I sit on the couch with the one explicit goal of switching my brain off. One such show I enjoy for this specific purpose is The Graham Norton Show. But, last night one of the guests referred to 'it' again. This word, concept, quality...
This week a 24 year old became only Australia's fifth ever women's major golf champion. I remember seeing her for the first time about five or six years ago playing the Aussie circuit. Grace Kim is petite, but back then you felt the wind could blow her over. Yet, she had an ability to contend at the top of the leaderboard whenever I saw her.
Life is hard, work is hard, problems are hard to solve, parents can be hard on us, relationships are hard to navigate, and making sense of our own thoughts and feeling is probably the hardest thing of all.
This week South Africa became the world test champions in a one-off test match against the Aussies in London.
For a federation struggling to pay the bills it was a wonderful win for them, and good for world cricket. But how did they win? How did they become world champions?
Over the last year, the Leadership Journal has become the backbone of the work I have been doing with leaders of all types and levels as we navigate their Leader's Journey.
I am in another waiting room filling out another form. Name, age, email, address... Then, the symptoms, history of illnesses/surgeries, and then circling the parts of the body needing treatment on the little muscle anatomy figures. I draw a lot of circles…