How to immediately boost organisational performance
Countless books, podcasts and articles tackle this fundamental question: how do you boost an organisation’s performance and do it quickly and effectively. Google gives 7,430,000 results for “how to boost organisational performance”. We often look for different metrics across organisations, and make decisions how to run things more effectively in the hope of increasing performance. […]
How to know when you have ‘arrived’
This week I’ve been inspired by several different ideas. Listening to the latest episode of Learning Leader (#299 with Kyle Maynard) one of the things struck me is the question when we have arrived. ‘Arrived’ in this context means about reaching a point or end goal, and recognising that moment as significant. I have also […]
How to challenge norms (in a good way)
I am halfway reading Priya Parker’s book The Art of Gathering and it has really made me question a lot of the norms that we have all around us how to gather. For example, the piece I wrote last week about how to create more meaningful gatherings really struck a cord with many of my […]
Normalising ideas
I am still reading Seth Godin’s book ‘This is marketing” how ideas spread and ideas develop, and it still keeps giving me great ideas and inspiration. What Seth really emphasis is the role of narratives and the importance of paying attention to these: You can’t get someone to do something that they don’t want to […]
This is marketing: how to add true value and succeed
This week I have been reading Seth Godin’s newest book This is Marketing: You can’t be Seen until You Learn to See. What has been so refreshing about the book is Seth’s way of simply explaining how ideas work, which issues we should be thinking about when we embark on the journey in discovering and […]
How to leverage effectively career and adaptation
Many of us are starting to plan for the 2019. I have made numerous lists, mindmaps, and collections of ideas as to what I am obligated to deliver, what I’d like to deliver, and what I can deliver. At some point, looking at my lists, I was starting to despair. I started questioning as to […]
Why tracking decisions matters both for health and climate
Much can be said about our individual decisions, and the way we make them. The world is full of advice on this: countless books, webinars, podcasts, online courses and workshops on how you can learn to make better decisions. When it comes to climate related decision-making, some have argued that framing climate change about individual […]
What good leadership really looks like
As the year 2018 is drawing to a close, it’s an excellent time to reflect on what has been going on in the world, and specifically in the climate change space. 2018 has seen both leadership that is frankly just bad but also positive that has been inspiring. The good and the bad A […]
Re-defining climate leadership
One person that has not escaped the public eye during, before, and after the COP24 has been Greta Thunberg. The 15-year-old Swedish climate activist has popularised the notion of school strike for climate and has been sitting on the Swedish parliamentary steps every Friday. Shea’s just done a TED talk on her thoughts on what […]
And then there were COP24 outcomes (kind of).
The Paris Agreement was and remains a milestone agreement in climate change policy. Never before have countries spoken in so united voice about what their aspirations are for climate change outcomes, what kinds of commitments they aspired to, and how we can address climate change at a global scale. Yet, strangely these last two weeks […]