Tag: Priorities

Leadership in Chaos – Leaders Digest: 4th edition.

Leadership in Chaos: 4th edition. Career bending, toleration and shared experiences. “A man may keep very busy indeed without doing any thinking at all, and the easy course—the course of least resistance—is to keep so busy that there will be no time left over for thought”. Harvey Firestone, “Men in Rubber”. Change: career bending. The world of…

Leadership in Chaos – Leaders Digest: 3rd edition.

Leadership in Chaos: 3rd edition. Emergent discovery, positive dissent and output vs input. “Listen to others, you will be wise. The beginning of wisdom is silence”. Pythagoras Change: emergent discovery. The secret of change, Socrates said, “is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but building on the new”. Innovation therefore, is critical. And achieving it,

Leadership in Chaos – Leaders Digest: 2nd edition.

Leadership in Chaos: 2nd edition. Fortitude vs resilience, beyond the hero and disengaged. “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius— and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.” E.F. Schumacher. Change: fortitude vs resilience. Resilience is a popular word these days.…

Leadership in Chaos – Leaders Digest: 1st edition

Leadership in Chaos: 1st edition. Everyone's vulnerable, the age of outrage and the era of EX.

EP 65: How to Lead in an Age of Chaos and Disruption – Part 2: The Leadership Contribution

Leadership isn’t about position, title or privilege – although many organisations operate as if it is. Leadership is best seen as a form of contribution. In this episode we unpack exactly what makes up that contribution.

EP 66: How to Lead in an Age of Chaos and Disruption – Part 3: Create Clarity

In times of ambiguity and uncertainty people look intensely to their leaders. As that leader, if you can be nothing else, be clear. This episode explains why and how.

EP 67: How to Lead in an Age of Chaos and Disruption – Part 4: Inspire Commitment

The more digital the world becomes, the more we must emphasise what makes us most human” – Jack Ma This episode unveils the 4 Emotionally Intelligent “Cards” that – played right – help build connection and commitment : Humanity’s trump card in an increasingly digital

EP 64: How to Lead in an Age of Chaos and Disruption – Part 1: Chaos? Always!

We’re born without all the answers, we die without all the answers, yet we spend most of our lives looking for certainty. The problem lies not with the stars …but with ourselves. We spend this first episode of the Keynote series exploring why we crave certainty so much when the natural state is one of

EP 63: Resist Temptation – Minimise Distraction

“The most scarce resource in the world today is attention” – Yuval Noah Harari. The only 2 industries that refer to customers as “users” are Big Tech and drug cartels. We live in an increasingly technology-fuelled Garden of Eden – an attention economy where the most sophisticated dark forces are constantly, covertly intent at work to distract you. If time

Ep 62: “The Art of Leadership”

What has Art got to do with Leadership? Throughout nearly 30 years of working with leaders and leadership, the very best leaders Ian has encountered all have had one thing in common, irrespective of geography or industry: the sensibility of an artist. After all, leadership is all about creating something novel and new from just your imagination combined with the

February 28, 2023

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