A dinosaur in this context is anyone who has been in a large organisation for long enough to have lost their desire and ability to truly innovate, create or just improve products, service, systems, process or reason for being. We are either disrupting or being disruptive; we are either challenging the status quo or we […]
We live in disruptive times, don’t we? The great have fallen and the many small have disappeared before they were even noticed. Memories of Kodak, Enron, Pan Am, Blockbuster Video and Nokia remain with us. Start-ups have become global leaders and disrupters inside a decade. Facebook, Ali Baba, LinkedIn in the digital world and Uber […]
A prerequisite of effective leadership is the presence of courage. In this VUCA world (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) we are witnessing the presence of fear in many of our leaders across the board – fleeing, fighting or frozen. The symptoms are: Much talk, little action – ineffective meetings that lead nowhere. Confused understanding and […]
Right now in Western Australia the biggest concern appears to be revenue, according to the feedback I’m getting from my CEO clients. Sales are significantly down. There’s a scarcity of new work. Contractors are being asked to cut costs. Suppliers are being squeezed. There’s a domino effect occurring. Frantic searching for revenue and cost cutting […]
There’s no way to avoid this task, it’s causing lost productivity, loss of talent and diminished morale. Worst of all it’s negatively impacting on profit, market share and innovation. It’s also reflecting on you directly and causing you a loss of respect. What is it? Toxic people in your workplace. Get rid of them now, […]
Coined by the military and studied by Bob Johansen and many others, we are all experiencing VUCA right now – volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. Thanks to Bob Johansen and others we know that the way through these conditions are with a countering VUCA – vision to settle the volatility; understanding to comprehend the uncertainty, […]
Do you have the courage to own up to your errors immediately? Do you have the courage to ensure the right people are on your team for the right reasons? Do you have the courage to hand leadership over to a person better suited for the immediate situation, even temporarily? Do you have the courage […]
If there’s diminished trust and respect in a leader, then there’s equally diminished performance and productivity. Right? Trust and respect go hand in glove and it is rare that a leader is trusted but not respected or vice versa. Trust and respect must be earned, and where the leader must go first. We all fundamentally […]
Given that ISIS has killed more Muslims than anyone else it was not surprising that the global leaders of moderate Islam, the vast majority, have finally taken action. Knowing that violence begets violence and will not stop the violence conducted by criminal psychopaths hiding behind religion, whether radical imam, supporter or ISIS soldier, courageous moderate […]
Massive and disruptive change is upon the way we do business, the way we work, the way we govern, and the way we live. That calls for leadership that can execute on these main criteria: Do we have meaningful and lived values that guide how and what we think, say and do? Do we have […]
