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 […]
How to shift a mindset: from COP25 to beyond
After just returning from the COP25, it seems that there is a big disconnect between knowledge, action and shifting mindsets. As we’ve seen, most of the commentary coming out of the United Nations political negotiations on climate change is mainly negative. Most of this negativity relates to the fact that the countries cannot agree by consensus […]
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 […]
How to grow strategically
This week’s insights are based on two different yet similar books: John C. Maxwell’s No Limits: Blow the cap off your capacity” and Annie Stewart’s “Career to Calling: How to make the switch“. The books have lots of similarities: both authors are coaches and focus on building people’s capacity to do things they didn’t think […]
3 key areas of improvement every leader should embrace
Lately I have kept thinking about what makes someone a good leader. I keep wondering about this as I have immersed myself for the last 3 years in reading loads of books on leadership, what enabling and agile teams look like, how important good leadership is for innovation. And yet, often I find that all […]
How to leap between theory and practice
Many of us who aspire to be great leaders and wanting to make an impact know how much leadership is a learned skill that is a mix of theory (all the leadership resources we consume) and practice (actually dealing with people). You can read piles of leadership books and understand the core principles of good […]
How to prioritise through directed commitment
The famous Jim Collins quote says that the most important thing is to first to get the right people in the bus, otherwise you’ll spend most of your time arguing where you should be heading and how to get there. This is highly applicable also to how you prioritise your activities and goals: if you […]
How to bring innovation from the edges to the core
These past weeks I have reflected a lot what it means to know about leadership and innovation in theory and what happens when all of those thoughts and ideas have to take come into contact with the real world. One of the key takeaways from discussions I have had is that organisational change is painfully […]