Finding your true work
This post explores how to find your true north in your work. It highlights the current trend of individuals seeking greater meaning in their careers and highly successful organisations having…
Know your triggers
Emotional outbursts can be very damaging to our lives and careers. Throwing our toys out of the pram takes place in an instant but its impact can last a lifetime….
Tomorrow’s leaders: Reconfiguring the whole system
Given that we live in a world that feels ever more uncertain, a radically different approach to leadership is called for. Increasingly leaders will need to see themselves not as…
Speak Your Truth – Without Rupturing your Relationship
This post outlines a practical tool that will help you to stand in your truth when the stakes are high. Talking together about a contentious issue does not have to…
How to have that Big Conversation
This post explores how to lean into having an important conversation. It outlines three key strategies to help you to prepare. While there is never any guarantee how a conversation…
How to get out of the ‘change maze’
This post explores why 75% of change initiatives fail and what can be done about this. Four ways forward are suggested: (1) frame the problem accurately; (2) navigate the unknown;…
What street circus can teach us about leadership
This post explores how leaders can adjust to surviving and thriving in a radically altered environment. Inspired by 4 years working as a street circus performer, I explore 3 ways…
The power of purposeful leadership
This post explores how feeling inspired, energized and focused at work leads to greater productivity, loyalty and performance. When we do what we do best and enjoy most, it strengthens…
Leadership for Collective Intelligence
This post explores how a new approach to leadership is emerging. It is concerned not with the single heroic leader but with leaders thinking and talking together to achieve results…
Conflict, competition and the collective
This post explores where conflict comes from and what can be done so that we live and work together more harmoniously and productively. Along with five million other visitors, I…
To have a conversation, create a container
This post explores how we can create the conditions for generative dialogue so that together we achieve more than we could alone. A “container” for a conversation provides a “holding”…
Call Up Your Courage
A few weeks ago I attended a packed out event in London called, “From the Roman Empire to Twitter: Why are we so afraid of outspoken women?” hosted by the…
The Choreography of Collective Leadership
It’s been a great pleasure the last few days to be in the throngs enjoying the Edinburgh Festival. Established in 1947, the Festival was created to “to provide a platform…
We need to talk
To live is to be related. Nothing and no one can live in isolation. We are all interdependent, and increasingly so, on this planet of nearly seven billion of us….
Why conversation matters
Conversation is centre stage in most people’s lives. We might even see the whole of life – and work – as one conversation followed by another and then another. Talking…
Better dialogue: The power of tone
Tone is a crucial point of leverage in interactions between people. The quality of the tone determines whether people’s energy is amplified or diminished by the conversation and this, in…
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