Tools for Leadership in Times of Change
Sorry for the recent radio silence on The Churning as I have been working to complete Inner Leadership. In the meantime here is an inspiring example of how even members of the Continue Reading →
Peter Drucker, the first and probably the greatest management guru, made a major contribution to defining the modern corporation. He also gave his view on what it is to be Continue Reading →
Stepping into the unknown of the world as it is going to be, and leaving behind the apparent safety of the world as it used to be, can seem risky. But Continue Reading →
Management is about doing things right: efficiency and incremental improvement. Leadership is about doing the right things: choosing what matters and what doesn’t. Both halves of The Churning provide tools and frameworks to enhance your Continue Reading →
In the natural world, the path to fulfilment of an organism’s potential often involves the disruption of what was there before. A seed cannot grow without cracking open. A caterpillar Continue Reading →
When Levi Strauss arrived in California intending to sell tents to the miners he discovered that they didn’t need tents because it hardly ever rained. He could have taken the tents somewhere Continue Reading →
There are four ways of looking at obstacles. One is to see them simply as obstacles: something getting in the way of you doing your work, an annoyance to be removed. Continue Reading →
Good advice here from Steve Jobs. But how can we achieve this when everything around us is churning and our inner voice is being drowned out by a hundred different messages Continue Reading →
Many people think that serendipity is a happy accident, coincidence, good fortune. But Finland’s #serendipitor Ilkka Kakko tells us that serendipity is an attitude of mind: “the quality of mind Continue Reading →
An article in the Harvard Business Review tells us that researchers at the University of Michigan have discovered a way to improve employee performance without increasing perks, benefits, or deploying new processes. They Continue Reading →