Reading time: about 2.5 minutes. Building a leadership team is an opportunity for the leader who assembles the team and the company that team will lead. In this blog, I’d like to explore two situations where a leadership team is built; the pros and cons of each;...
In its simplest form strategy is planning. We have a goal, we develop a plan, and we march toward it. And sometimes that’s all we need. It’s those times when there’s only one clear focus; when we don’t have to take account of conflicting interests; or...
If we want to lead we have to start at a personal level by leading ourselves first. This is true whether we’re heading up senior teams that make decisions affecting large numbers of employees. Or we’re nervous teenagers braving the first day of a new...
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....
If you’re looking to grow as a leader and are daunted by the prospect you’re not alone. It’s that feeling, the one when you realise you’re responsible for a team, a department or a business that can send you running online to check out the...