Reflective leadership – the power of silence Taking the foot off the gas seems to be an impossibility for leaders in the world today and yet is never more needed. The pressure to stay on it, to keep pushing and searching for solutions is heightened by the many uncertainties and pervasive instability permeating our lives.Read more
Inner Leadership – can you sense it? Do you have those days when you feel plugged in to something bigger than you? Everything seems to flow, your ideas feel especially potent, your connection with the world feels like it matters, and you feel part of something meaningful? Sometimes we refer to this sort of feelingRead more
The daily review Imagine if everything we do today becomes tomorrow’s headlines and stories. What would we (and others) be reading about ourselves and how we lived those 24 hours? Maybe it would be a review of transactional events, rather bland and uninspiring. It could be an account of achievements and ‘not yet dones’. OrRead more
Words have power As we seek to create the organisations and cultures in which people can thrive and bring their best selves to work there are some phrases that we need to strike out of the organisational and leadership lexicon. Human capital being a case in point. It’s sterile, mechanistic and devoid of humanity. IfRead more
The ‘and/and’ of leadership (part two) In a world altering at great speed leadership is an increasingly paradoxical state – a balancing act requiring the blending of qualities and characteristics that seemingly don’t blend…yet they must. Yes, we need ambition and drive but that needs to be in service of something beyond self. So weRead more
The ‘and/and’ of leadership (part one) As leaders there are many skills we need to keep learning, polishing, perfecting (or at least ensuring we’ve pushed our potential to the max). One of the most pressing areas for our continuous attention is how we handle paradox. Wherever we look in the leadership remit we are confrontedRead more
Calling all leaders…are you a global citizen? I am inspired to write on the subject of global citizenship by a recent blog by Seth Godin. In it, amongst other things he says… ‘It’s the citizens who define the future, because their commitment to the long-term matters’. This caused me to consider citizenship and leadership inRead more