Leadership
How To Transcend Your Leadership Style To Have More Humility?
How To Transcend Your Leadership Style To Have More Humility? In his book, Conscious Business: How to Build Value through Values, Fred Kofman identifies two types of people in business: controllers and learners. The leadership styles of each are dramatically different. One type will sound familiar as it will be the kind of person we…
Read MoreHow Can Leaders Instill A Stronger Sense Of Integrity In Their Teams?
How Can Leaders Instill A Stronger Sense Of Integrity In Their Teams? “Developing a conscious culture is a business imperative,” argues Fred Kofman in his book Conscious Business: How to Build Value through Values. A conscious culture consists of shared goals, beliefs, and values that are communicated to the employees to educate them on how…
Read MoreDo You Know How To Become A Conscious Leader?
Do You Know How To Become A Conscious Leader? Most business books are full of advice on the steps leaders should take to make their teams more effective. These books discuss such topics as how to structure meetings, improve performance, and get more out of their employees. That is, the premise of most of those…
Read MoreWhat Is The New Approach To Leadership?
What Is The New Approach To Leadership? With so much changing around us, it is not surprising that leadership should change as well. Even before the pandemic, Heather McGowan and Chris Shipley suggested that “new times call for a new approach to leadership” in their book The Adaptation Advantage: Let Go, Learn Fast, and Thrive…
Read MoreHow To Convert Vision To Strategy?
How To Convert Vision To Strategy? Imagining the best possible future is one thing, but figuring out what to do to achieve that vision is another matter. In their book Lead from the Future: How to Turn Visionary Thinking Into Breakthrough Growth, Mark Johnson and Josh Suskewicz describe how future-back leaders use their capacity for…
Read MoreHow To Become A Forward-Looking Visionary Leader?
How To Become A Forward-Looking Visionary Leader? What do Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Steve Jobs have in common? All three are recognized as visionary leaders. They looked past the conventional wisdom and set out to create a different and better world, but they did not do it on their own. They inspired others to…
Read MoreWhat Are The Most Effective Ways To Create A Strategy?
What Are The Most Effective Ways To Create A Strategy? “If your organization doesn’t have a unique point of view about the future, then it doesn’t have a strategy.” This comment from Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini’s new book Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them grabbed my attention. As a strategist,…
Read MoreHow To Stop Treating Your Employees Like Robots?
How To Stop Treating Your Employees Like Robots? “The threat that automation poses for employment depends mostly on whether or not we continue to treat employees like robots” is a quote from a new book Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them, written by Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini. Immanuel Kant, a…
Read MoreWhy Bureaucracy Destroys Human Spirit And Hurts Societies?
Why Bureaucracy Destroys Human Spirit And Hurts Societies? Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them, a recently published book by Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini, really “spoke” to me. I have been writing about what I call “human leadership” for several months. The term resonated with me, but I was not sure…
Read MoreAre You Living Your Life According To Your Terms?
Are You Living Your Life According To Your Terms? I keep coming back to Yuval Noah Harari’s quote “Humans believe in a particular order not because it is objectively true, but because believing in it enables us to cooperate effectively and forge a better society,” because it was the first time I became aware of…
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