Reading time: about 2.5 minutes. In my book, The Six Attributes of a Leadership Mindset, I talk about three different leadership worldviews: task, teach, and create. Each worldview has its focus. Task sees the job of a leader as ensuring the job gets done. A teach...
Reading time: about 2.5 minutes. In this week’s blog I’d like to share part of a recent conversation I had with a HR professional. The topic was executive development and the question was this: why are executives are the hardest people to source professional development for? The...
Reading time: about 3 mins. Isn't it what we all want for our businesses: leadership teams and staff who act and feel as if the business they’re working for is theirs? Create that and people take initiative. They consider the impact of their actions on the...
Reading time: about 3 minutes. I think most people agree that strategy is important. Most senior teams spend time developing strategies, and most companies have a strategic framework they work to. That’s great of course, but it begs one question: if we have sound strategies in place...
Reading time: about 3 minutes Last week we talked about mindset; what it means and why it’s so popular right now. This week I’d like to think about how we can operationalize a shift in mindset. But before we get to that let’s talk about a possible...
Reading Time: 3 minutes. Recently I’ve been chatting with people about mindset. OK, so that’s not really news, but what is news is who those conversations have been with. The people I’ve been chatting with aren’t clients, not even potential clients. and the conversations are about...
Reading Time: 2 Minutes. According to Plato, one of the many phrases of wisdom that Socrates gave us is this one: the unexamined life is not worth living. I didn’t know Socrates, but I’m guessing if that sounds harsh it was meant to. Socrates, after all was...
Hello and welcome to blog 3. If you’re new to this series, here’s where you can catch up on blog 1 and blog 2. And if you’re ready for blog 3, let’s jump into it. The Worldview Barometer So the question becomes this: how do we...
Welcome back to our three part blog on observing without judgment. In case you missed blog 1 you can find it here. If you’ve got that blog under your belt, let’s move on with blog 2. The Worldview Filter The thing that makes observing without judgment tough...
Observing Without Judgment It’s the quality of a leadership mindset that gets the most kick back in the consulting I do. “Observing without judgment?” Lori Leader might say, “Surely the job of a leader is to act. To make the tough decisions and see them through.” She...