You can surely name some great visionary leaders – maybe world famous or even better if it’s someone you’ve worked with. They’ve all had to get rid of one thing to be inspirational. Something you might not have thrown off yet. Selfishness. They may still have ego, or ambition, or…
128. Are you a Visionary?
Visionary leadership is not confined to the adventurous, courageous, innovative & extroverted types we think of like Steve Jobs or Elon Musk. Those are just the famous ones. Every “visionary” communicates a message. So can you. The message might be world changing or small and mundane but it needs to…
127. How do I read your mind?
One reason we humans work well in groups is because we “know” what others in the group think. It maybe we know their views on important topics, or just how they will react in certain circumstances. We might be guessing or know with confidence, but teams simply don’t work without…
126. What needs sorting?
How do workers cope in our fast paced, complex and volatile world? One trick is easy to learn, and practice. Setting priorities. Anyone can do it in any workplace. You need to start in your own work. Don’t wait to be told. Don’t wait until you’re a leader. Practice a…
125. What are you decisive about?
Great leaders are decisive. Not in the way that you might think. Being decisive isn’t just about making fast decisions. It’s about being purposeful. When you’re clear what’s important and what’s not, deciding what to do in the moment is easy. Once you’ve set your mission, you need to make…
97. Do you Inspire?
Two stone masons were cutting a block of stone in a quarry. A passerby asked them what they were doing. “I’m cutting a stone” said the first mason. “I’m building a cathedral” explained the second. One saw what they had to do, the other could see the end result. One…
91. Are you Perfect?
The Project Triangle hides an important leadership lesson. Put simply, the Triangle says you have 3 objectives when completing a task. You can have it good, fast or cheap. Pick any two. You can’t have all 3. Good and fast = not cheap Good and cheap = not fast Fast…
7. You are what you Aim for.
There are few things more polarizing in an organization than target setting. I don’t mean that leaders are divided on the merits of objectives, though they often are. I mean that the whole subject of targets is what separates leaders from their teams. There’s a theme in leadership literature that…
4. Traffic Control
I was lucky to learn to drive in a place and time where heavy traffic was something you only saw on TV. My driving skills were honed going fast on open roads, or occasionally late at night on suburban streets, not grinding through heavy traffic. It was not until I…