How to find your vision in a messy world
This week I have been challenged with many processes, with an abundance of opportunities to reflect on things like how we can find our vision, how we learn to lead, and how we make decisions under uncertainty. One of the biggest learnings has been that of observing a process, going back to my core values […]
How to embrace leadership as a habit
Most of us have lots of ideas what we’d like to be like, what we intend to commit to, and what “success” looks like for us. We have in other words a vision, a dream of something that drives us, and that enables us to build strategies into our career plans so that we tick […]
How to build radical transparency
Most organisations shy away from conflict, are based on hierarchy where much of key information is shared only across the very top and privileged, and hire based on flawed interview metrics and methods. Yet, Ray Dalio challenges us in Principles (almost last blog on this, promise!) to consider another alternative that could just change your […]
How to build a strong company culture
How many of us have worked in organisations where the culture wasn’t just right? Where the rules and the bureaucracy to make decisions were often so difficult that it was easier just to keep going with the status quo than trying to change things? In this week’s blog, I draw inspiration from Coaching for Leaders […]
How to progress individual success within an organisation
Most of us are very good at telling others what we have achieved, which milestones we have cracked, which committees we sit on and how we keep going from win to win. But we often struggle to explain how all of our individual actions fit into the broader goals and vision of the organisation that […]
How to develop robust decision principles
Learn from the best is what most of us aspire to do. So no wonder that when people like Ray Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Associates, decides to put his life principles into a book, you simply cannot not buy that book. Principles (Life and Work) is Ray Dalio’s personal explanation of his life work […]
How to spot and evaluate leadership potential
One of the key areas that most of the organisations get very wrong is how to identify within their ranks future leaders who have the actual skills and abilities to lead well. Anyone can be promoted to a leadership position in most of the current systems within organisations: you stay put for X number of […]
How to assess true competence vs. confidence
Many of us can detect bad leadership very easily and can point out which leaders are not living up to good leadership standards. Yet, in the book Why do so many incompetent men become leaders? Thomas Chamorro-Premuzic poses an interesting question that should alarm us all: if we are so good at recognising bad leadership, why […]
How to become an innovation leader
Innovation leaders are people who have a broad set of skills ranging from ideas to strategic implementation, perform generally much better, with higher company revenues, and with higher customer satisfaction and staff inspiration. These leaders are inspirational, able to attract the best talent but also unafraid to ask the complex challenging questions that can transform […]
How to get and maintain innovation capital
How many of us have spent hours in cool wanky workshops where we unleash our individual and collective creativity? Everyone feels great and super excited about the next phase and the state of the world. The only problem is that for most ideas, the next phase rarely arrives: the actual move from big bright ideas […]