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Leader-Leader: Are You Ready For It?
Traditional management follows the Leader-Follower paradigm. Hierarchal, top down, clear accountability. Leader-Leader is about shared responsibility, collaboration, innovation and is based upon the belief that…
January 30, 2025
Nec Aspera Terrent
Nec Aspera Terrent loosely translated means ‘fear not difficulty’ or more directly ‘rough things do not terrify’ and is the motto of both the American…
January 14, 2025
The Fruit Bares No Resemblance to the Seed
Actions have consequences. You can choose your actions; your control over the consequences is limited at best. The challenge is that we often do not…
January 9, 2025
The Price of Security is…
The price of security is, ironically, a deep awareness of insecurity. Or at least an ongoing appreciation of the fragility of any form of safety…
January 7, 2025
The Shortest Distance isn’t Always a Straight Line
Sometimes going directly for what you want isn’t the best strategy. We seek ‘Perfect Outcomes’ when perhaps we should really be focused on ‘Perfect Actions’.…
November 26, 2024
Are You Ready for Luck?
The unsuccessful sometimes attribute the success of others to good luck. Balderdash! Luck, good and bad, comes to all. As the good book says: ‘Rain…
November 21, 2024
Speaking Gently: Three Gates Plus a 4th
The great Sufi poet, Rumi, believed that before we speak, our words should pass through three gates: Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it…
November 12, 2024
Are You Watering Weeds?
We ‘water weeds’ when we waste our time/energy. Weeds come in many forms: Saying yes to the unimportant, to others’ priorities that aren’t ours. Every…
November 7, 2024
Gut Check Truth
“Reading without application is just a form of wasting time.” I read that sentence in a TM’s email* and it was a gut check. It’s…
October 29, 2024
Reach for the Broom
Are you willing to step up when the need arises? When the call comes, do you step forward? Raise your hand and say, ‘I will’?…
September 24, 2024
The Invincible Summer Within
There is a famous quote by Nobel Literature Prize winner Albert Camus: “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me…
August 20, 2024