Resources
Salon Speaker Series
Recordings from a Series I arranged for the Accelerating Coach Excellence Virtuoso program from 7 Paths Forward LLC. Oriented toward high-level executive and leadership coaches, these speakers have...
‘Positive deviants’: Why rebellious workers spark great ideas
By Loizos Heracleous and David Robson, 1st June 2021. Organisations tend to see rebels as troublemakers – but suppressing these individuals and their ideas could backfire.In the 1980s, a group of...
Innovation, Mess, or Magic?
Is it innovation, mess, or magic? My editor Kathy found the book Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives to be stimulating reading relevant for innovators and thought leaders. Let us...
Find Your Corporate Thought Leaders
This month is about how best, as a senior-level corporate executive, to find your corporate thought leaders. How different types of organizations can most effectively work with them. What to look...
Unshackle Your Corporate Thought Leaders. Please!
I don’t know a corporation today that doesn’t have problems. We’re all familiar with increasing pressures, complexity and today’s warp speed of change. There are ever-greater challenges to solve at...
Are You a Thought Leader? We Need You
If you are a thought leader, chances are life has not been easy or comfortable; more likely awkward and frustrating. If you don't realize that's what you are, it's even worse. So if you find...
Crucible of Misfits
If you feel like a misfit … I believe there’s a good reason for that. If you are on this planet, there is a reason you are here. It may not be an easy journey. But the crucible of misfits – which...
Smashing into Flow
Brexit has hit many people around the world pretty hard. It appears that ven those who crafted and voted for it are wondering what they’ve gotten us all into. Colleagues of mine in the UK have...
The strength to get up and try again…
Some days, life stinks. Work feels like a trap, full of crazy people you have nothing in common with, most of whom are out to get you, or at least so it feels. Your side job is falling apart. You...
Fall in (healthy) love with customers
Love in business? Anathema, no? You can’t fall in love with your clients – much too messy, you say. Well, consider this… Many of my clients are reasonably to very attractive men, in responsible if...
Give Me Strength!
How do you handle those toughest of times, when you need all the strength you can muster? What rock do you stand on? If you are in a challenging situation, reflect on this… Whether you run...
Leaders and Emotions at Work
If you want to change what people do, you need to change what they think. If you want to change their thinking, you have to change how they feel…and underlying feelings is emotions. – Dr. Alan...
The Dance of Leadership
It was colleagues at UK business school Ashridge who helped me see how powerful an experiential metaphor for leadership dance can be. Here's why. Interest in Lindy Hop is taking off around...
Innovators! Here’s Your Secret Weapon
Are you charged with bringing more innovation into your organization? Looking for a new approach, an edge that will keep you in the forefront? Then find your highly sensitive people. This is a...
Innovation: It’s About Your People
f you are not free to be unique, you are not free to innovate. Innovation. It happens all around us, in large ways and small, every day. And while creativity – coming up with something new – is a...