“Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.” – Peter Drucker A while ago, I read an article on leadership habits by Tamnay Vora, who said: “Managers are linchpins who have
“It’s not my responsibility” I spotted a graphic on LinkedIn recently which talked about personal responsibility (it was similar to the first image below). It’s premise was around healthy boundary setting. The problem was that the creator of the graphic had posted it into a LinkedIn group around leadership, and
Whilst working with a newly promoted leader last week he was wondering what type of leader he ‘should’ be. He’d clearly got a solid idea about what leadership is and what ‘good’ looks like, but he wasn’t clear about his own style and where to leverage his strengths. In truth,
“If serving is below you, then leadership is beyond you” – Bishop Dale Bronner I’m forever reiterating to leaders I work with about the benefits of servant leadership. As an article in Harvard business Review pointed out, ‘By focusing too much on control and end goals, and not enough on their
When teams are formed, they go through predictable stages of development. Recognising, understanding and responding to this development and performance ‘curve’ has the ability to transform good teams into great ones. A commonly used framework for these stages was developed in the mid 1960’s by Bruce W. Tuckman. His descriptions
Writing is easy. Great writing is almost impossible. As Seth Godin said: “If your work isn’t more useful or insightful or urgent than GPT can create in 12 seconds, don’t interrupt people with it. Technology begins by making old work easier, but then it requires that new work be better.”
I spotted this post from Gellan Watt and felt like I wanted to take a view on it. Gellan’s viewpoint is that running an agency is about doing work that delivers an output or outcome, whereas running a business is deal making. In some ways I agree, particularly with the
Here are the top ten articles from the year – the ones which got most people talking, elicited the highest response, or won the most clicks.
A short time ago I was invited by Paul Levy, a long-time friend and now senior researcher at CENTRIM, University of Brighton (where we both studied back in our heyday) to join an informal chat with his creativity students. The idea was to arrive ready to impart whatever wisdom I might conjure
A cool video outlining Spotify’s approach to engineering culture. You can see the full transcript here, but I’ve dropped some key points from the video below: Agile > Scrum When our first music player was launched in 2008, we were pretty much a Scrum company. Scrum is a well established
