Bill O’Brien, former CEO of Hanover Insurance, observed of his efforts to lead transformational change in his organisation, that “the success of an intervention depends on the inner condition of the intervener.” To make clear what this means, O’Brien is making the...
You hear us say a lot that leadership is about taking responsibility for our world. That's what creative leaders do. But what does that mean?It means taking ownership of how we experience the world. It means recovering to our centred, grounded Self when we're...
My son has started studying French and he is learning his first two verbs: Être et Avoir – to be and to have. He is also 13 and in his first year of secondary school. He wants to make friends, which means he is trying to, in his case, fit in and find his place in the...
Leadership is not so much about staying creative. It really is more about recovering to creativity, now, … and now, … and now. As we are creating a workshop for a larger organisation, we are looking into creative and reactive tendencies and how they make or break our leadership in any given moment.
But why are we reactive in the first place? We’ve written about this before, and usually, this is where we speak to the patterns we’ve acquired in childhood. Today we want to look at this from a different perspective:
Your values shape …
As the wave of advice around New Year’s resolutions is ebbing, this year’s alleged “quitter’s day” is approaching fast: Based on 822 global online activities in 2019, It has been scheduled to be January 19th.
According to this analysis, most New Year’s resolutions will give way to reality by 19th of January, including the two most frequent resolutions of healthy eating and exercising. But what does that matter?
There are people follow through with their intentions for the coming year. And why should you not be one of them and turn your shoulder on January 19th.
I am as bad as anyone on following
The average life span of today’s multinational, Fortune 500 corporation is 40 to 50 years.
One of the reasons for premature death is that management tends to …