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Distributed Leadership
“The difficulty lies not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.” John Maynard Keynes Imagine this… A teenager lies unconscious in the sand dunes of a North Devon…
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Is your organisation playing ‘Whac-a-Mole’ decision making?
At a recent meeting we attended, participants talked about the organisational challenges they were facing. One person pointed to a strategic paralysis at Executive level in their organisation. ‘There’s a lack of…
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What does it take to shift our culture?
‘Culture is what happens when the CEO isn’t in the room’ John Collinson, CEO Stripe If Peter Drucker’s adage that culture eats strategy for breakfast is right, why is it that we…
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Reimagining leadership
‘Leadership is an activity in pursuit of something new and better … It’s a group sport, not an individual heroic activity’. Ed Schein (MIT Professor Emeritus ) How do you define leadership?…
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How well do you contain the anxiety of others?
“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs”…………… On the importance of containing anxiety We live in unprecedented times or Megachange as Darrel West calls it. Megachange…
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Making your conversations count
In her book, Conversational Intelligence Judith Glaser proposes that conversational competence is critical to priming the brain for trust, partnership and mutual success. The quality of the conversations we have will determine how well…
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Are you a trust builder?
In organisations, the importance of trust is multi-faceted. Recent World Economic Forum research points to CEO concerns that falling trust in their organisations will hinder growth. Within organisations there is a strong…
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Collaboration – a game of snakes and ladders?
One of the strangest pieces of research we have come across was published in the Harvard Business Review: ‘Adults behave better when Teddy bears are in the room’. The research suggests that…
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Unleash your leader – A Book Review
Don’t be put off by the somewhat adolescent title of this gem of a book. Unleash your leader contains some essential truths every leader needs to know. As consultants, we are often…
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Is true grit what it’s all about?
Will “getting gritty” be one of your New Years’ resolutions? It might seem like a strange suggestion, but I’d like to explain why it’s mine. In episode two of our recent podcast…
