How I gave up control and gained power on a Navy ship
A retired US Navy Captain, tells his remarkable story of abandoning the command-and-control military paradigm, leveraging the power of freedom-centred leadership, and developing the most respected crew in the Navy.
The adaptable mind
The Adaptable Mind asks the question: what are the skills we need to flourish in the 21st Century? Los Angeles-based professor and artist, Mary Beth Heffernan, was listening to coverage of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa and how isolating and traumatic it must be for patients to interact only with hazmat suits for weeks on end.
She thought, “what if they put pictures of their faces on the front of the suits?” Thousands of hurdles later, Mary Beth’s story reveals that, while there is a lot of fear that technology is displacing our jobs, the skills we need most in the 21st Century — curiosity, creativity, taking initiative, multi-disciplinary thinking, and empathy — happen to be skills that machines don’t have; only humans have.
The 8 essentials of innovation
Strategic and organisational factors are what separate successful big-company innovators from the rest of the field. What are our innovation leaders doing right?
Using Lego serious play as design thinking
Lego bricks have been part of the childhood of many people and many adults still enjoy playing with it, which promotes it to become one of the thinking tools.
The aligned organisation
Bringing meaningful purpose, practical strategies, and goals together makes an organization’s aspirations more credible— and more likely to be achieved.
5 routes to more innovative problem solving
Leaders using simple business frameworks to view complicated problems sometimes fail to see truly novel solutions. The complexity of today’s business environment means that complex, even chaotic, problems are quite prevalent. Tricky problems must be shaped before they can be solved. To start that process, and stimulate novel thinking, this article argues that leaders should look through multiple lenses.
The third space – reflect, rest and reset
It’s not what you do — it’s what you do in-between what you do — that really matters! Let’s learn how to leverage it and avoid mental burnout.
Change management vs. Change leadership – What’s the difference?
These terms are not interchangeable. The distinction between the two is actually quite significant. Change management, which is the term most everyone uses, refers to a set of basic tools or structures intended to keep any change effort under control. The goal is often to minimize the distractions and impacts of the change. Change leadership, on the other hand, concerns the driving forces, visions and processes that fuel large-scale transformation. In this video, I delve a little deeper into the differences between the two concepts, and highlight why we need more change leadership today.
Your Hellomonday check-in add-on
Incorporate these questions into your check-ins to best support your team through uncertainty.
Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
This lively RSA Animate, adapted from Dan Pink’s talk at the RSA, illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace.