Build back better means build back kinder. With a special responsibility if you lead a company. With talk of a K-shaped recovery, where fortunes ascend for some while they plummet for others, it’s up to all on the ascendant leg of the K to look out for those on the descendent. Not (just) out of […]
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Tactics come easy once principles are in the blood.
“Tactics come easy once principles are in the blood” I love that quote from Josh Waitzkin’s ‘The Art of Learning‘. He was applying it to how we display mastery as we learn, and I alluded to this previously when discussing how leaders who are at ease with their leadership and values can adapt fairly quickly […]
Don’t be a Should Shoveller
I find that the people who should the most, often do the least. When I meet a manager who shoulds all over him or herself (an apt phrase at too many levels, but sadly not one I came up with!), I start to get wary. They’re usually loud with it. “We should improve how we […]
Most strategic decisions are harmful or irrelevant
Most strategic decisions made by leadership teams are at best irrelevant, and at worst harmful. And this is for one simple reason. They don’t get implemented. This is especially the case in SMEs looking to scale up. And it happens for a number of reasons. Sometimes no record is made that could lead to action, […]
New processes won’t replace old (bad)habits
Those of us with an entrepreneurial mind tend to be bling-hogs (guilty as charged). Our bling is new books, new systems, new processes, new products, latest recruit, newest client… One of the worst impacts of this is that we can allow our obsession with bling to obscure what we really need for positive change. We […]