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‘From Wicked to Great’: Collective Leadership – an idea kicking around for some time……
….here’s what the Chinese philosopher Lao Tze had to say about 2,500 years ago: ‘The wicked leader is he whom the people despise. The good leader is he whom the people revere. The great leader is he of whom the people say, “We did it ourselves.”’ Collective leadership...
What does Systemic Leadership look like?
Systemic leadership – a term featuring in leadership press more and more … and typically in a discussion that also features the leadership challenge and current reality that is VUCA – Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity. Apparently, a Systemic Leader is...
Remembering Rosie
Culture is about the human stories that shape who we become together at work. It cannot be constructed or fabricated. It’s already there, alive in the hearts of those who make it happen each day . I recently attended The Thriving Workplace event at Atlassian on how...
What belongs in your culture?
This year my son has started high school. To my alarm a friend of his was recently suspended for 5 days. Why? For having his close friend in a headlock. It would be alarming except they always do that. If you can picture bears rumbling on the ground then you will...
Why Good Leaders Are Also Followers
We often picture a leader at the helm, charting the way forward through known and unknown waters. They stand forward and provide direction. They anticipate and they solve complex issues. So, it might be a surprise to fathom that an outstanding leader is also...
Why Leadership Programs Can Fail
Have you ever set out on a trip, believing you have everything you need, only to get down the road and realise you have left something important at home, raced back, started again and then realised you had left something ELSE behind? Well then, you might understand...
Engagement surveys not yielding an ROI? It might be time for a culture audit!
Ever noticed how we tend to put all things ‘people and culture’ in one bucket and everything else - like looking after customers, winning new business, finances and business performance - in a separate bucket. And we measure the performance of the ‘people’...
When stress is your best friend
By Vanessa Fudge, Leading Well Founder Working with a group of leaders in the NFP industry recently, I was asked, “Can we please look at stress today? I have been overwhelmed by the pressure of how much I have on my plate and it has started to...
Resilience – The Forgotten Factor
As we all know resilience is our ability to stand back up after a knock and walk on even stronger. A lot of excellent insight has been offered through positive psychology and how to rewire our internal patterning to strengthen our resilience pathway (so we...