All posts tagged "Leadership"
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Manage Like a Cat, Nurture Like a Dog
I just spoke to 300 parents about raising teenagers and I made the planned observation that they should...
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The Most Successful Leaders Are Critical Thinkers
The Marquis de Sade is one of the most infamous, deviant and evil French writers of all times....
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Reinventing Organisations
A talk, followed by Q&A, by Frederic Laloux about “Reinventing Organizations”, a research and book that is turning...
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The Politics of Fiction
Listening to stories widens the imagination; telling them lets us leap over cultural walls, embrace different experiences, feel...
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How to run a Business with No Rules
What if your job didn’t control your life? Brazilian CEO Ricardo Semler practices a radical form of corporate...
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Loving Leadership
Love is not a word commonly connected with leadership. It’s not a term used to describe any job...
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How to Fascinate
In today’s world of 9-second attention spans, our introductions mean more-than-ever before. Sally Hogshead reveals the seven triggers...
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Collaboration Capability
The above leadership development model was co-created recently whilst I was working with a senior leader of a Fortune 500...
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Mindful Leadership
Dear friends, Earlier this year I had the privilege of hearing Arianna Huffington speak about the power of...
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Alex Pirouz on Leadership
When it comes to achieving business success, most people think it is mostly because of the strategy that...
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The Rise and Fall of Ken Wilber
Ken Wilber is the smartest man you’ve never heard of. He’s a philosopher and mystic whose work attempts...
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Extraordinary Bosses
A few years back, I interviewed some of the most successful CEOs in the world in order to...
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Lessons Learned
Are there certain leaders that you find inspirational? Steve Jobs inspires me because he faced tremendous adversity in...
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Powerful Trait
Recently I conversed with a friend who runs a large company. He was struggling with communications challenges typical...
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Leaders Like Wolverine
Leaders are like Wolverine because leaders have sharp edges – they have to because leadership requires cutting through...
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Team Effectiveness
In my experience as a leadership consultant and facilitator, there are five vital ingredients for a highly effective...
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Seven Key Leadership Traits
Research has shown that there are seven key Trust Factors that are most common in outstanding leaders. Failure...
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Leadership – Straight from the Horse’s Mouth
What can horses tell you about your Leadership presence? Victoria Lance explains how her team of equine coaches...
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The New Social Leadership
When driven by fear, human beings generally go to one of three places: They get stuck. They solve...
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What’s Wrong with Narcissism?
Great leaders and business people are often powered by self-interest. Among their many resounding characteristics, narcissism is prevalent...
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The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs
His saga is the entrepreneurial creation myth writ large: Steve Jobs cofounded Apple in his parents’ garage in 1976,...
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Stop with the Details!
How many times have you been in a meeting and the person who is speaking says something, and...
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Leadership is a Contact Sport
Leadership is not just for leaders anymore. Top companies are beginning to understand that sustaining peak performance requires a...
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FeedForward Instead of Feedback
Providing feedback has long been considered to be an essential skill for leaders. As they strive to achieve...
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How to Succeed in the Hidden Job Market
With research showing that an estimated 80% of jobs are “hidden” and only 20% are advertised, what does...
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The Incomplete Leader
“Be a good leader. Be incomplete. Don’t be perfect, don’t even try….” There is evidence that the best...
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10 Ways to Diversify an Inbred Network
Networks are essential for collaboration, innovation, and career development. But too many executives have networks that, while they...
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NLP and Leadership
I am an international consultant and author, pioneering the use of NLP for people in business. My work...
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Leadership and the Art of Politics
As a leadership consultant and executive coach I am often asked by my clients to help them understand...
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The Cost of Arrogant Leadership
Mac Davis sang, “Oh Lord it’s hard to be humble when you’re perfect in every way,” and whilst...
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The Collaboration Deception
1. DEFINITION: What is the ‘Collaboration Deception’ Two accused street smart school students sit in separate rooms awaiting...
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Leadership and Self-Observation
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.’ Marcus Tullius Cicero “Why should...
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NLP-Based Coaching: An Overview
“Coaching is a twenty-first century methodology for empowering people through profound questions so they can take charge of...
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Why Hire a Professional Coach?
Greek philosopher Aristotle said, “Criticism is something you can avoid easily—by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”...
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Kicked in the Rear?
Greek philosopher Aristotle said, “Criticism is something you can avoid easily—by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”...
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How Great Leaders Inspire Action
Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and...
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How to Start a Movement
With help from some surprising footage, Derek Sivers explains how movements really get started. (Hint: it takes two.)
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‘How To’ Guide for Visionary Entrepreneurs
As visionary creators, we’ve created and are in touch with loads of wonderful, internet based resources for transforming...
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How to Pick an Expert?
At the last Investec Academy course in Riebeck West, I chatted to some of the boys about how...
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One-man World Summit
Scottish funnyman Rory Bremner convenes a historic council on the TEDGlobal stage — as he lampoons Gordon Brown,...
