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Great leaders aren’t overly vulnerable or authentic

Iyas A · Oct 20, 2019 ·

“Good leaders don’t hide their emotions. Be vulnerable. Be authentic.” Simplistic tosh that continues to do the rounds in the industry that is training the next generation of leaders, and undermining their ability to lead effectively. The challenge is that there is a lot of nuance to this that is lost beneath the headlines, and […]

Don’t Kid Yourself with an Out-of-Office Reply

Iyas A · Oct 19, 2019 ·

“Out of office” is an interesting game that too many of us play. We set up the autoresponse religiously when we go on holiday, then still surreptitiously check our inbox while we’re away. Before we know it, we get sucked into the inbox and suddenly we’ve lost hours. For some, a reply gets sent out […]

Structure is not your goal

Iyas A · Oct 18, 2019 ·

In our drive for structure, we should always remember that structure is there to support an outcome, and is not an end goal in its own right. Leaders and consultants alike are guilty of creating frameworks and matrices. McKinsey’s famous MECE (mutually exclusive, completely exhaustive) is a wonderful triumph of the intellect over the real […]

The Power and Need for Indistractable

Iyas A · Oct 17, 2019 ·

I’ve been privileged the last couple of days to go with some of my clients to 2 talks about recently launched books. First, Nir Eyal’s “Indistractable”, which lays the case and an approach to from from distraction to traction. Essentially how to spend our time and attention with more intentionality on the things we want […]

Profit or purpose first

Iyas A · Oct 15, 2019 ·

You’ve seen a lot about how purpose is good for profit. It can be. Sometimes it’s not. But regardless, pursuing purpose on that basis is a dangerous road to go down. The more we talk about companies needing to lead with purpose and values because this is more profitable (which I hear A LOT) – […]

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