Tag: effective management

Leadership in Chaos: 28th edition. Sharpen your axe, lean in, pygmalion effect. Hi 👋, welcome back to our 28th edition 🙌. “I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every…

Leadership in Chaos: 27th edition. New frontiers, embarrassment, odyssey plan. Hi 👋, welcome back to our 27th edition 🙌. “Priorities are like arms; if you think you have more than a couple, you’re either lying or crazy.” Merlin Mann Change: new frontiers. Microsoft just published their 2025 Work Trend Index Report, and it’s pretty revealing stuff. AI…

Leadership in Chaos: 26th edition. severed, soldier or scout?, future trust. Hi 👋, welcome back to our 26th edition 🙌. “Taking off is optional. Landing is not.” Nassim Taleb Culture: severed. Season 2 of Severance is showing on Apple TV. It centres on a company (Lumon Industries) where job volunteers undertake a surgical procedure that splits…

Leadership in Chaos: 25th edition. comfort trap, change violence, the passionate few. Feb 27, 2025 Hi 👋, welcome back to our 25th edition 🙌. “Only those who will risk going too far, can possibly find out how far one can go”. T. S. Elliot Culture: comfort trap. There’s been great progress made in modern workplace culture.…

Leadership in Chaos: 24th edition. blind spots, trust, stories. Hi 👋, welcome back to our 24th edition 🙌. “We should not try to alter circumstances but to adapt ourselves to them as they really are, just as sailors do. They don’t try to change the winds or the sea but ensure that they are always…

Leadership in Chaos: 23rd edition. the last war, one note, acts not careers. Hi 👋, welcome back to our 23rd edition 🙌. “When we tell ourselves we’ll do something later, we run the risk of waking up one day and finally realising it’s just not going to happen, not because we failed, but rather because…

Leadership in Chaos: 22nd edition. mistakes and apologies, listening, critical ignoring. Hi 👋, welcome back to our 22nd edition 🙌. “It’s so simple, yet makes such a difference. Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make me feel important.’” Mary Kay Ash Leadership: mistakes and apologies.…

Leadership in Chaos: 21st edition. good hope, the network office, soviet lies. Hi 👋, welcome back to our 21st edition 🙌. “If we can recognise that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that *we do not know enough to be pessimistic*.”…

Leadership in Chaos: 20th edition. problem stories, founder mode, shadow and light. Hi 👋, welcome back to our 20th edition 🙌. “The innovator is more often than not met with some degree of condemnation; usually according to the degree of his departure from the prevailing modes of expression… Change is always so hard to accept.”…

Leadership in Chaos: 19th edition. autonomy, quests, urgent vs important. Hi 👋, welcome back to our 19th edition 🙌. “Character is fate.” Heraclitus Culture: autonomy. In his 2009 book Drive, Daniel Pink argued that human motivation is largely intrinsic, and can be divided into three things; autonomy, mastery, and purpose. Autonomy is the feeling of self-direction, mastery the feeling…