How to get your team from “good-enough” to “awesome”
Keeping with David Marquet’s book Leadership is Language still, I’ve thought more and more about how we can create learning environments where we shift successfully between redwork (doing actual work e.g. analysis) and bluework (reflection and planning). He outlines several key questions and issues that are key in understanding how we can move from what […]
How to lead through language
The new book of the week is David Marquet’s Leadership is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say and What You Don’t and I was extremely happy to find this book at the airport after just having listened to his podcast episode in Coaching for Leaders. There are so many insights in this book […]
How to change your self-image
When I’ve shown my current book, Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz, to a few friends and colleagues, I’ve got lots of concerned looks and questions about Scientology. But fear not, I have not gone to the dark side… the book is actually about psychology of our assumptions, habits, and beliefs and how these form the image that […]
How to train your mind for success
The book by Robin Sharma The Leader Who Had No Title has made me think further about the role that we ourselves play in our own success, including the habits we adopt and the thoughts that we generate. Also, having read Dr Joe Dispenza’s book on changing yourself, it is becoming more and more clear […]
How to claim your IMAGE for leadership
Book of the week is The Leader Who Had No Title. I’ve heard about this book many times and now finally got my hands on it; it’s leadership wisdom but told as a story of a young man who has returned from war back to US and is living a life where he has settled […]
Reflections of a climate adaptation scientist
This past week I haven’t had much time or energy to read, the perks of being on a holiday… although I have to confess I walked into a second hand book store and got a “few” books now waiting for me… (below the evidence; my mother thought I was kidding when I had stacked these […]
How to embrace a new way of being
This week I have been looked at some of the insights from neuroscience (science of the brain) in order to better understand the complexities and mechanisms involved how we think, feel and act. Dr Joe Dispenza’s book “Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One” discusses our […]
How to make infinite decisions in 2020 and beyond
The 2020 is looming and many of us are taking stock what we have accomplished in 2019, the great successes that we saw, the great fails we experienced, and many of us are yearning to make 2020 a better year, or even a better decade. But in order to improve, we cannot keep the old […]
How to play the (in)finite game
The book that has been generating lots of buzz this year is Simon Sinek’s The Infinite Game that has been recommended to me by so many that finally now I got it. I have only read the first chapter but already I can see clear linkages between how Simon describes finite vs. infinite leaders and how […]
Women in leadership: changing minds and models
This week I am attending the United Nations Climate Change Negotiations in Madrid at the Convention of Parties (COP) 25th meeting. As part of my role in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and leading the Griffith University delegation, I have been able to assist with several side events and I am also a part […]