Brain Brushing
This was one of the most viewed blogs I’ve ever written so I thought it deserved a second run.
Daniel Siegel makes an excellent case for the benefits of mindfulness and integration.
For an organisational system to work at its best, there needs to be an open flow of energy and information promoting engagement, creativity and receptiveness. When there is this flow of energy and information between independent and integrated parts of the system, you have harmonic balance.
This is ...
10 Lessons From the Coalface
As a coach who assists people and companies to be successful, I would love to say that on my side business is always running smoothly.
Yeah, right.
There isn’t anyone out there who hasn’t started or run a business and not experienced some down time and challenges. It’s what it means to take risks and is inescapable. It also is what enables us to succeed – if we can learn from both our wins and losses.
Carol Dweck is a proponent of being an open learner – seeing ...
The importance of a growth mindset
At the Neuroleadership Summit in San Francisco last week, neuroscientists and business leaders connected to share ideas around the theme “Adaptive Organisations.”
Carol Dweck’s conversation on the beliefs organisations should hold was particularly important as it illuminated one of the essential components of success: a growth mindset.
Organisations that are willing to learn will be more adaptive and innovative, making them more ready to deal with the increasing ...
Leaders must be role models
Jeroen De Flander of the Performance Factory has returned my serve beautifully with a challenging question “What do you do when people know that non-integer behaviour got them – or their boss or CEO – the corner office?“
Non-integer behaviours result in short-term or immediate benefits to only one or a few involved. But the long-term repercussions are far greater for the larger population. Our current world economy painfully illustrates the impact of this short-term ...
A journey of a thousand steps
Three and a half years ago I set out to answer a burning question I had which was “What is it about great leaders that sets them apart from the rest?”This question had sat in the back of my mind for about 30 years as I’ve witnessed acts of leadership greatness and sadly, the opposite – terrible actions by leaders of entities large and small.Wanting to capture leadership perspectives both in and outside the corporate mindset, I interviewed respected leaders around ...
The essence of success in few words
Countless numbers of books have been written on how to succeed, but I think Catriona Noble, CEO of McDonald’s, summed it up perfectly at the recent alumni event at the Australian School of Business:
“Never give up. Whenever something happens, just put it into perspective and find a way forward.”
More than our circumstances, talents or resources, it’s our perspective on a situation that determines the outcome. If you think something is possible, you’ll keep ...
Unspoken Communications
People know how you feel about them without you having to say a word. Try to deliver the world’s funniest joke to someone who doesn’t like you. Hard work, isn’t it?
How about speaking to someone who thinks you’re great? You could tell them the worst joke and they’d laugh.
Try relating to people around you as greater, stronger and more capable then they know themselves to be. Think of them as heroes in the making.
That’s what great leaders do, why their people ...
