How to negotiate
I’ve always treaded negotiating as it seems to be either a very delicate dance or outright war in people trying to get what they want. So I was particularly intrigued what insights I could gather from the book Never split the difference: Negotiating as if your life depended on it by Chris Voss and Tahl […]
How to improve performance in real-time
This week I have further reflected upon the Measure what matters, in particular the question: how do we know that we are on the right track even when we have set our mission, objectives and key results? In order to reach our Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), these should be supported by what John Doerr […]
How to measure what matters
In Measure What Matters: OKRs – The Simple Idea That Drives 10x Growth, John Doerr explains why measuring what matters helps you to plan, track and achieve success. It makes intuitive sense anyway: if you are not measuring your progress, how would you know that you are really hitting your goals? In a sea of […]
How to develop leadership mindshare
One of the key organisational capacities that makes a difference is how we embed leadership “mindshare” in the organisation. This relates to also how we embed visionary thinking and enable broader mindsets across the whole organisation, including how we invest in individuals. According to Johnson and Suskewicz in Lead from the Future, “Visionary organisations create […]
Indistractable: how to master the fight for attention from within
If you could buy a proven time management framework that gets rid of most of your daily distractions, how much would you be willing to pay? In this case, it’s as much as Nir Eyal’s latest book Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life” costs. Nir’s framework draws upon a wide variety […]
Want to learn to lead during coronavirus lockdown? Develop emotional intelligence
By now, most of us have heard of the actual skills that are required to succeed in today’s work place: the “soft” skills like listening, detecting moods, reading power relationships, collaborating and influencing. For a long time, many of these skills were not recognised as core competencies because they exist under the surface and have […]
How to ace people-centered leadership
The book of the week is It’s Not About The Coffee: Leadership Principles from a Life at Starbucks where Howard Behar shares his experiences and insights on behind the scenes decisions and leadership models at Starbucks. What I have been mostly struck by in this book is his honesty and also in-depth explanations that about […]
What you need for imagining your future right now
Let’s dig some more into how you can recognise a purpose and some pretty cool actual  strategies in how to keep moving forward, even if during this time that might seem discouraging or not possible. Our lives have been disrupted, some have lost their jobs, others are struggling to cope with workload while caring for […]
Defining your purpose: easier than it sounds?
In the midst of chaos, the unfolding pandemic, poor decisions on warnings and emergency management, the world can seem like it is literally coming to an end as we know it. It is soooo easy to get swept up with screen time being 67% up from last week (ahemm….), checking on Twitter and news sites […]
Leadership as Empathy in the era of coronavirus
I have been on Twitter on minute-by-minute basis this last week, trying to understand the unfolding trends of coronavirus and what lessons are already emerging in how countries and leaders are handling the situation. Many of us are scared, trying to understand what is happening in other countries, which measures seem effective (washing hands, social […]