Leaders just do the job or Leaders: just do the damn job.
Manage an organization in the interests of any group – shareholder, customer or employee – and you become their agent. Run it on behalf of all stakeholders and you become everybody’s agent – just before you become a gibbering wreck.
“Top Leaders’ Experiences of learning”
If we are to mentor and coach leaders-in-the-world, then we need to understand something of their relationship with the world: not only their perceptions of their capacity to act but also how they arrived at those perceptions.
Trust the Process of the Heart
We worry so much about the future that we fail to manage the present. We build artificial visions of the future and then expect life to match up to them. And when they inevitably don’t, we burden ourselves with disappointment and a sense of failure. We use our heads and our gut – but not our hearts, the most formidable organ of them all.
leaders blinded by their own light
If hubris is a state of unsustainable triumphalism, then how do I keep myself open to the possibility of sustainable discovery and achievement?
The Behaviour of Ailing Corporations
How your company behaves to any one section of its stakeholders has a direct impact on its business and outcomes – because it offers the world a window into its soul: its values, priorities, limitations, aspirations and ability to reach its outcomes.
colluding with the client
The more I coach the more I realise how fragile the process can be; the more I realise how narrow the border is between, say,
The Vulnerability of leadership
Those who have followed my work will know I believe we need to build a strong body of knowledge to enable us to understand the
Managing fear
If wishful thinking – in the form of greed – got us into taking excessive risk, then realistic, clear , values based thinking will be needed to get us out.
What if Man…
What if Man did not fall to Earth, but flew? —– What if She did not fall damaged and caterwauling but landed in perfection?
