Responsibility and trust. Not the sexiest of leadership topics. Maybe that’s why all too often they don’t have much of a life beyond clichéd leadership mantras. But leaders who don’t behave responsibly fracture the trust we place in them. Think Donald Trump and his inflammatory comments...
It’s Christmas, the lights are up all over town, it’s the season of goodwill. And there’s even a newborn who’s heralded a new era of gift-giving and generosity. But the new baby I’m thinking of certainly wasn’t born in a stable. And the gift on everybody’s...
This weekend I watched a documentary about the death of traditional advertising. The message of The Naked Brand is simple. Consumers are too smart, too connected and too suspicious for traditional ads to work any longer. Gone are the days when you can lie to an unsuspecting...
Back in 1903 when George Bernard Shaw penned his famous “He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches”, he wasn’t talking about management consultants. But too often, as it turns out, he could have been. Consultants have a reputation for showing up with standardised models heavy on...
I was having a conversation this week with a business leader when he asked a simple question: “If everyone leads, who’s left to follow?” It’s a fair question because the cornerstone of the way we work at Innate Leaders is to develop what we call Leadership at...
“Birds fly, humans create” is Kevin Ashton’s democratizing view of creativity. In his interview on Canada’s CBC radio he dismisses the commonly held idea that there’s an elite group of bona fide geniuses while the rest of us can only dream of a eureka moment....
We’ve all heard about how lies in leadership created the Enron scandal. You may have seen it laid out in technicolor detail by Alex Gibney in his movie, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. You may have even heard about Gibney’s take on Steve...
Scroll through the Harvard Business Review or Forbes and you may come across articles on mindfulness in business. In fact the idea of mindfulness in business is so popular right now, as the Economist puts it “selling mindfulness has become a business in its own right”....
Let’s face it, focusing on employee engagement can seem like a risky strategy. After all, what if it means changing the way you do business, or handing control to your direct reports? If the idea of creating more engaged workers leaves you excited and nervous then...
Sometimes in the workshops we run, maybe somewhere in the middle or during breaks, the conversation turns to authentic leadership. About how we can make it more than a buzzword or empty phrase. When that happens it means something powerful. It means the group of people...