Leadership in Chaos: 7th edition.
choices, the middle, self-beliefs.
“I can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ideas.”
John Cage
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Émilie Mario
Change: choices.
A thought for leaders: To thrive in a chaotic world of change, we have to embrace it. That means making tough choices. Choices driven by vision, imagination and passion, that will reinvent and reimagine. Change is choice (more on choices in our manifesto below). You can’t go left and right at the same time. You have to decide. Do you want to change? And, are you willing to do what is necessary to make it happen?
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Émilie Mario
Performance: the middle.
- Setting them up to succeed (right structure & right span).
- Ensuring they focus on the right things (less bureaucracy & admin).
- Up-skilling them and building their capability (to grow).
- Supporting them and avoiding burnout (give them meaning and purpose).
- Measuring and managing success (focus, feedback and incentives).
A thought for leaders: We hear a lot about leadership teams (right talent at the top etc) and too little about the middle. The engine of organisations. Leaders should be dedicated to ensuring their collective success. Organisations with good manager cohesion, who perform in similar ways, have x2 the organisational health of those that don’t. It’s not just for a month or with one or two managers. The key is system-wide consistency. Their success means a healthier, wealthier workplace. #Winning.
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Émilie Mario
Resilience: self-beliefs.
A thought for leaders: Remember as Dr Gurner says, confidence and self belief stacks. As you silence the critics, and take risks and move forward, it builds. You grow. But equally, if you listen to the critics, if you’re held back by the imaginary rules, you’ll hesitate. And hesitancy can equally hold us in a negative loop that builds on itself. Remember to hold your nerve. Do the thing. Say the thing. Be the thing. Each action, builds new beliefs. Each decision, makes you bigger and stronger.
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Émilie Mario
Leadership Principle: Choose Consciously and Wisely
Dig a little deeper into this principle here.
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P.S. Our featured artist this month is Émilie Möri (b. 1978), a French-Swiss photographer. She grew up in a family of printers. Her experience in the field of silk-screen printing reveals her passion for colours, image composition and artistic expression. She uses her photographs to compose representations – real concrete utopias intertwined with her emotions according to the notes and drawings she imagines beforehand. Currently, her experiments revolve around feminine ataraxia, dreams and timelessness.