How to create moments of lift
Melinda Gates book “The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World has been an eye-opening experience in how we can invest in ways that actually accelerate change. The lessons she offers are not just applicable to development projects but also question and challenge our biases and ways of being at the workplace, from […]
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 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 influence crowds in a way that matters
This week I attended Griffith University’s Change Conference 2019 that has been organised by our Social Marketing group. I attended this conference last year (see previous blog) and this year I continued to be blown away by the stellar speakers and insights on influencing, marketing and bringing about behavioural and social change. Communication, risk groups, and […]
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 […]
How to see around corners and enable organisational innovation
The latest book I have been reading is Seeing Around Corners: How to spot inflection points in business before they happen by Rita McGrath who delivers a sobering message every leader and innovator needs to hear: if we want to stay ahead and innovate, we need to understand how trends emerge and spot them before they […]