Tools for Leadership in Times of Change
A time of change can make our lives seem difficult. But it also brings us opportunities. Understanding this comes in four stages. The first is to realise that it is Continue Reading →
It’s all very well talking about ‘purpose’ and ‘values’ — but we all have bills to pay and deadlines to meet. Can we really live our lives with purpose and meaning? Two Continue Reading →
More than a hundred years ago, Leo Tolstoy wrote: “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” Now this article in McKinsey Quarterly describes how anyone Continue Reading →
Every now and then it is important to pause and reflect on the progress we are making. Are we heading in the right direction? Are we being understood in the ways Continue Reading →
Some people think that leaders need followers. We disagree. We believe that: True leaders create more leaders, not followers. When times are stable, aligning the organisation around the vision of one person Continue Reading →
A new Insight from Stanford Business School tells us something we probably already know: when people can’t predict what is going to happen they tend to become more cautious. Researchers found Continue Reading →
People often ask me why this book is called “The Churning”. I tell them there are three reasons. The first is because of the churning that is happening in the Continue Reading →
This time of change is calling us to develop a new approach to leading ourselves and other people. And as we learn the skills and competencies needed to achieve this, we will Continue Reading →
Measurement is an important part of all our lives, both for defining our objectives and for tracking our progress towards them. Antifragility might be more difficult to measure than some Continue Reading →
Becoming ‘antifragile’ is about more than just surviving change — it’s about using change to become stronger. That doesn’t happen overnight. And it involves us becoming better at two key Continue Reading →