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 […]
How to build and use tribes to change culture
Developing and creating tribes within organisations can change overall culture resulting in increases in well-being, innovation and high performance. In this post I keep unpacking these insights from Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organisation because I do believe that understanding the different phases and especially how to move people to those […]
Why tribal leadership matters
These past weeks I have been reading Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organisation, and doing a lot of thinking as to why particular cultures form within an organisation, but also how we can influence company culture. Most people are familiar with the now famous quote attributed to Peter Drucker Culture eats […]
How to learn to lead (well)
In the university context, we often focus on issues like how to develop robust research methodologies, how to write a good journal paper, how to do amazing literature reviews, and how to contribute new knowledge to existing research topics and themes. However, we spend much less time in thinking about professional development, the skills that […]
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 […]