It's only with the Practice of Leadership that we Change our World!
Photo by stuartpilbrow “I think getting up in the morning is more exciting when you’re nervous. If you’re not nervous, you’re dead. . . .It’s time to change your life or your work the moment you stop having butterflies in your stomach.” – Warren Bennis If certainty and stability breed complacency and mediocrity, then [...]
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Photo by love2dreamfish Conversation is an important part of effective leadership and change for the following reasons: Vision must be shared, before it can be lived… this requires conversation. Change is underpinned by conversation Organisations change, when people change…. and … people change one conversation at a time….. Employee engagement is driven by meaning and [...]
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Photo by dpstyles™ The need for effective “social architectures” within organisation is critical if we are too ensure that we develop future leaders, to drive innovation and to create an organisation that has a great legacy. If we examine our leadership, I’m sure we’ll find that meetings are where we do much, if not most, [...]
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Carol Hymowitz wrote an interesting article "Sometimes, Moving Up Makes It Harder to See What Goes On Below" discussing the need to leaders to kee in touch with what’s happening on the ground in their organisations and teams… "Executives know success in business depends on identifying and fixing problems before they become crises. It is [...]
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Photo by Photo Extremist I have posted before on the importance of conversation in leadership (here and here). Meaningful strategic conversation is an emotionally draining and difficult leadership task. However without meaningful conversation, buy-in and commitment remains elusive, as was observed by Steven Covey “no involvement, no commitment“. Meaning conversation creates involvement……. which generates the commitment …… and…… it’s commitment that ensures aligned [...]
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