To transition from capable manager to accomplished leader, most people don’t need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop. (Peter Drucker) ...
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Concentrate on building your strength of character versus striving for more power. The point of power is to wield it for ones own benefit. Building strength is for the purpose of standing by the people or bigger ideas you believe in. The former is inherently self centred, the latter is...
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I’m not talking about the self interest that manipulates power so you win and everyone else loses – we’ll leave that to some of our politician friends… The pursuit of self knowledge in continually crystallising your understanding of your inherent skills, values, natural abilities, interests, style and goals is...
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I was talking with a client who was a bit low on spirits and energy. I asked him a question: “Tell me all the things that you are doing both personally and professional that make you happy?” Client: ………. Silence, long silence ( I was getting worried) followed by...
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Thought for the day. If all your employees were volunteers what would you be doing differently? Maybe this would just be an entertaining exercise, if it was not for the notion that it would not take a great leap of imagination to see that today’s employees ARE volunteers. Consider: This...
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It’s almost impossible to be successful without firm and clear boundaries. We naturally respect people who have strong boundaries. A boundary simply defines what people can and can’t do to you or, do around you. Some folks just put in boundaries without even thinking about it and we like that...
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Every solution creates it’s own problems. The car was the solution to the horse & cart. (Creating pollution, gridlock) Email was the solution to ‘too slow’ mail. (Creating overwhelm, escalations, focus on the small stuff) Credit cards were the solution to personal cash flow issues. (Creating stress, over extended debt,...
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Change is not difficult – Transition is difficult. It’s not starting something new that is tricky, we are good at that. It’s leaving what’s old and familiar behind that we find painful, messy, awkward or just in the too hard category. Change is easy…Transitions are hard. Yesterday you were single,...
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People and their confidence is not a fixed relationship. The significant people around you often have their confidence dwindle, sometimes to almost nothing. The ‘cost’ of that is they’ll play a smaller game and avoid being extra-ordinary. Don’t even bother asking ask ‘Do I impact on staff confidence?” You do. Every...
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“Those are my principles and if you don’t like them, well, I have others.” Groucho Marx The painful thing about having principles is…. people may actually expect you to stand by them. If you are going to declare that you might just: Listen to people like your life depended on...
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