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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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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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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Instincts and Integrity
When you know it in your “knower”. Some years ago, I was chatting with my friend Ernie, the leader of a local organisation, as people were gathering for an event, and as a couple passed us by, he enquired of me about them and their relationship, and then he said: “Don’t you just get the […]
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Difference Taker, or Difference Maker
Leaders with an abundance mentality and approach to their work focus on the possibilities rather than the problems, on what could be rather than what is, on what they want to do rather than on what’s convenient, on what they could achieve to make a difference.
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Stuck in the storm
There is a storm going on right now for many businesses in the midst of this pandemic, where uncertainty is causing staff to dwell in the storm for far longer than they need to. If the team can’t see a way forward with certainty, and the what-if discussion goes round in circles, then the team can find itself languishing in the storm from where others have already emerged.
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Between BC and AD
We’re living in The Disruption, and it’ll soon be time to emerge. In the last few days, we’ve had a family bereavement. Nothing to do with the COVID Pandemic, my mother-in-law was 94 and passed away very peacefully with her family by her side holding her hand. Doris was loved by many and an […]
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PRIZE Leadership Quotient
Leadership is the art of making decisions in the dim light of incomplete information, and leadership is measured with the illumination of hindsight.
If we want to be sure to be as well equipped as possible when the time comes for those dimly lit decisions to be made, then we need to make sure that our leadership skills are as developed as possible in preparation, and the PLQ provides a helpful benchmark against which we can assess our progress.
If we can measure it, then we stand a chance of being able to deliver it.
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What’s your motivation?
I have found without exception, when working with teams, that by helping them to understand the things that motivate them and their colleagues, they can learn how to improve their combined performance, productivity and profitability.
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Collateral Beauty
So what could “collateral beauty” mean? Well, maybe it could be described as an unintended bonus, benefit or beneficial consequence resulting unexpectedly from the midst of a tragedy.
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