I was musing on rock bottom scenarios recently and exploring what we need in our personal armoury to dig us out of a rocky pit. How bad can it get? Let’s imagine it. What do you fear the most? Disease? Illness? Maiming? Destitution? Public shame? Jail? Divorce? Being found out a fraud? Disappointing someone else?
How confident are you in the future? Do you have a great sense of certainty about how the world will be in five years? in ten? My friend and colleague Patrick Hollingsworth writes of the VUCA world (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) in his outstanding book, The Light and Fast Organisation. He recommends a light
Author: Patrick Durkin Having leading chief executives, billionaires and emerging entrepreneurs assembled in the same room for The Australian Financial Review Business Summit in March was a unique opportunity for BOSS to ask what they thought the next generation of leaders would be like. Speed, agility, curiosity and digital capability were all among the most
Author: Kathy Caprino In my line of work, I hear from hundreds of people a month, and connect with professionals in a more public, open way than ever before. Through this experience, I’ve seen scores of toxic behaviors that push people away (including me). And I’ve witnessed the damage these behaviors cause – to relationships,
Author: Glenn Llopis It’s become a universal truth that there is a lack of leadership in both the public and private sectors. In fact, many would believe that leadership is quickly becoming extinct. Given the cultural demographic shift, most leaders lack the readiness to see diversity and inclusion as a profit center rather than a
Do you know that one in seven people on the planet log on to Facebook every day? That’s 1.43 billion people. I bet you were one of them. I was! That can make us feel one of two ways: Insignificant or Bursting with possibilities. The opportunity for global connection and interaction is mind boggling! The
Where are you currently in your career pathway? Are you in a new management / leadership role and figuring your way? Have you been a star performer accountable for your results only but are now having to manage others? Or perhaps you have been a specialist but are now in a more generalist role, managing
Author: Dave Wheeler What makes an effective leader? This question is a focus of my research as an organizational scientist, executive coach, and leadership development consultant. Looking for answers, I recently completed the first round of a study of 195 leaders in 15 countries over 30 global organizations. Participants were asked to choose
“What am I doing here?” I sobbed. I lay face down in the mud with a 40kg canoe pinning me down awkwardly between slippery logs. I was 16, somewhere in northwest Ontario on a portage. The other girls on the canoe trip had gone on ahead and I had been left to carry one of
What is preventing you from asserting yourself with your peers, manager, team members, prospects, customers and suppliers? Do you worry about being rude or pushy or how others will perceive you? Are you concerned about having a confrontation? Having spent most of my 35 years in business in male dominated environments, I have watched the
