I just read a very well-intentioned article inviting us to be FEARLESS now. It’s fine to be fearless if that’s how you feel about the subject of your...
I just read a very well-intentioned article inviting us to be FEARLESS now. It’s fine to be fearless if that’s how you feel about the subject of your...
After observing and coaching teams, especially executive teams, for the last 25 years, I assert that there are only three root causes for the loss of trust.
Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash First Point: The three true human causes of all problems that exist in your business such as conflict, process breaches, values breaches, safety issues and errors are fear, useless habits and ignorance. Usually it’s a combination of any or all three. For example, a safety incident where a […]
Photo by Tai's Captures on Unsplash There are high-profile leaders and low or no-profile leaders around the world, in government, commerce and community who have earned the trust and respect of most of their people during these times. You know who they are. They model these values: Compassion: they authentically empathise with those experiencing hardship […]
Pic: The author and his son Daniel 1992 When Daniel was born, I was a largely absent father embroiled in my career within government agencies. I was so absent that my wife took our six-month-old son and left. I was gutted by both guilt and loss, but too immature and brainwashed to honour my greater […]
Elephant in global room - depositphotos.com It’s not Trump, political divide, racism, climate change, obesity, tech disruption or AI, poverty, population growth, possible pandemic. However, the above are related symptoms, as this report shows. The elephant in the room is the very structure of money at the global level – namely Central Banking. All money […]
I’ve been an executive coach for two decades and before that a leader in defence, law-enforcement and commerce. Despite that, I’m still learning to be a better leader myself as I help others. I was asked recently if I could distil everything about being a great leader down to three traits. I described those traits […]
Stress and anxiety, there’s a lot of it going around right now, yes? The following arises from my experience in high risk, high performance and high stakes activity in covert operations and commerce. When we are stressed or anxious, we are in fight, flight or freeze mode and the following can happen: Blood goes away […]
Imagine this is true. That Life, including Work, is just a game we have chosen to play. There are only two games that we can choose from. Game One is the Game of Altruism, Game Two is the Game of Egoism. Game One is an uphill struggle which ennobles us. These players aim for the […]
Root cause analysis is the process for determining the real cause of a problem, malfunction, error or oversight, so that the situation can be remedied and not occur again. Root cause analysis practices can vary according to the category, for example safety, production, process, failure and systems. However, all those categories are ultimately created operated […]