The Cost of Avoiding Conflict.
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The Leadership Quest is the Human Quest!
The leadership Quest is The Human Quest. As we live fully into who we are, the purpose we were born to fulfil, we grow as leaders who make a real impact.
Wilson Sporting Goods: employees as culture creators, not culture consumers
Wilson Sporting Goods specialises in manufacturing equipment for a wide range sports and has been around for 108 odd years. Joe Dudy joined the company as an entry level accountant 27 years ago and now serves as the CEO of the company. Over the years Wilson has been the global leader in manufacturing sporting equipment …
The Beginner’s Mindset – a prerequisite to growth
As a Coach, as a Leader and as a Leader who is a Coach, perhaps the greatest gift to the self and others is a Beginner’s Mindset. It is the ability to be fully present, listen actively and not be thinking “I already know the answer to this”.
Inaction is the sword of Damocles. Not failure.
My coach once asked me: What is that one thing that holds you back from doing what you want? I said: Overthinking. The consequence is inaction. Analysis-paralysis – that’s my biggest challenge. I was reminded of this when my friend T, called me a couple of days ago, to give me the big news that …
Imposter syndrome – what can you do differently to diminish its presence?
The dread you feel of being ‘found out’. The anxiety and foreboding that the ‘fraud’ will be revealed one day. That you have been lucky in your career stints, the bosses and peers you have met. The new role will reveal not your hidden potential, but your actual incapacity. Like me, perhaps when you commit to an audacious …
‘Transition Period’: an important investment in crafting a career change
As a mid-career professional there comes a time when you ask “Am I doing what really aligns with how I want to contribute?” “Should I change direction, and if so, where should I go?” After all, Herminia Ibarra’s seminal work on crafting career transitions does reveal that during our working lives most of us will …
Do you excessively analyze failure?
What is more productive – spending time analysing failure or understanding what makes us successful as well? The answer to that made a big difference to my mindset
Leader! Are you willing to shift from Below the Line to Above the Line?
In the previous post, I wrote about Jim Dethmer’s work on Conscious Leadership. The first step – involved getting yourself located around the issue that you are facing. How are you ‘being’ with it in your life – are you responding to it from Above the Line or Below the Line. In case you want to …