Compelling Cause
“People are becoming increasingly intolerant of companies without a … Compelling Cause.” ~ Roger Fairhead What’s the difference you want to make? When I was growing up, my dream was to become an Engineer and much of my early career was spent managing engineering projects. A key lesson I learned in that role was that […]
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Collaborative Culture
“People are becoming increasingly intolerant of companies without a Collaborative Culture …” ~ Roger Fairhead If the people driving the strategy aren’t passionate about the change you want to make, then you stand no chance of implementing a plan. What is corporate culture? I first noticed corporate culture when I moved to my second employer. […]
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How to “live usefully”
Living, and making a living … on Purpose We can choose to be intentional and live usefully; to live our lives “on purpose”, to make a living “on purpose”, and to run our organisations “on purpose”, with a purpose that is greater than simply making a profit or surplus. “I would rather have it said ‘he lived usefully’than ‘he […]
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A soul whose intentions are good
All leaders are flawed … Recently I was looking for examples of a great leader. It seems that we’ve always had some good leaders among us, and we’ve often even had some impressive leaders demonstrating moments of absolute brilliance. However, from my research, we’ve rarely seen a great leader. Leaders who don’t rely on their […]
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SORTED Magazine Interview
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck! Last year I was interviewed by SORTED Magazine Deputy Editor Tony Yorke, and here is the article that was published in the Jan/Feb 2022 Magazine. See https://sortedmag.com/ Roger Fairhead has a dream: he wants all men […]
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Seeing Beyond The Horizon
The horizon is closer now than it’s ever been. I was listening to one of my favourite leadership voices recently, and I was reminded of one of his recent messages. John Maxwell was introducing the second publication of one of his earliest and most widely purchased books “Developing the Leaders within you 2.0” when he […]
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Digital indigestion
Nutrition, and the all you can eat buffet Leadership has never been more important than in times of uncertainty, and we’ve not experienced as much uncertainty as we’re facing now for several generations. At the same time, we have an enormous quantity of leadership advice coming our way from every direction, and it can seem […]
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This can be a new day for your leadership
Leadership is … bringing certainty into an uncertain world A key aspect of leadership is to bring certainty into a world filled with uncertainty. This season has left many of us in the dark, and unsure how to provide clear direction in our leadership. At the start of last year when the pandemic struck and […]
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Taking Offence
“I’d like several other fences to be taken into consideration” ~ Ronnie Barker as Fletcher from the TV Series, “Porridge”. Ronnie Barker played the part of Norman Stanley Fletcher in a TV comedy series called Porridge. Barker’s character was of a soft-hearted hardened criminal who regularly had a run-in with two of his prison wardens, […]
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Making a difference in 2021
What’s the difference you want to make, and what makes you different? ~ Roger Fairhead We are about to embark on the second year of The Disruption, and this time of year gives many people time to pause and to think about what we’re going to look back on next Christmas as 2021 draws to […]
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