People ask their leaders for certainty, even when the evidence is that certainty is a rarity. Think of the experts who predicted that Trump couldn’t win. It is likely that most of our predictions will be wrong in some way, sometimes significantly. How then can we as leaders move forward into an unknown, unreliable future, […]
After five years as CFO Gary was promoted to CEO of the logistics company, whose long term competitive edge was document and parcel delivery within 24 hours nationwide to capital cities and within two days to regional cities. They were being challenged now by growing electronic document transmission and democratised parcel delivery. Gary’s charter was […]
We don’t get trust and respect given to us immediately do we? However, we can begin earning trust and respect immediately. Or not. We won’t get trust and respect just because we know everything, or lots, about the operation or the technicalities. We won’t get it because we were great in our last role. Trust […]
Have you ever been in the presence of a leader who is ranting, angry or overwhelmed? How did you feel at that moment? You can be assured that in that moment that leader wasn’t capable of either thinking or behaving effectively. If the leader is in that emotionally unstable state, then trust and respect in […]
The HR Manager told me that we couldn’t call the leadership development project “coaching” because the CEO doesn’t believe in coaching for leaders. The CEO has stated that leaders should be developed enough to not need coaching; that they wouldn’t have made it thus far if they were deficient. That CEO and his Chief Operating […]
It was not because you are a technical genius, nor an operations genius, marketing genius or sales genius. It is not because you have a PhD or an MBA or a list of other certificates, diplomas or degrees. It is not because you have years of experience in the company, nor an extensive industry network, […]
