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 […]
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 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 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 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 […]
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 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 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 […]