March 2017: Last year I completed a blog series on Soft Skills development. The series generated a lot of attention and over the past several months I have had several organizations contacting me to ask permission to either use or republish for their internal use. I have also had requests…
Creating Space for Change: A little bit goes a long way
The difference between the best and the worst, between success and failure, between mediocrity and excellence, is often very small — witness how tight the spread between first and last place can be in an Olympic downhill race. A single insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience. That is one…
Leaders Build Leaders
Leadership is… Building Leaders Over the past couple of years I have been writing a series of blogs on what it means to be a leader. Last week I asked the question, do we need followers to be a leader? How do we position ourselves as a leader in any…
Do We Need Followers To Be a Leader?
Do we need followers to be a leader? How do we position ourselves as a leader in any given context? Over the past couple of weeks I have been confronted again with the question about what leadership looks like in the context of there being no organization to lead. Can…
So What Stops Them From Succeeding?
Neville Guant wrote a comment to my last blog post asking the question, “…all your readers and mine … know it already. So what stops them acting and succeeding?” This is a really good question and I guess one of my answers would be that I’m glad they don’t act,…