Why is ownership so important in team and individual engagement? With ownership one could argue, the owner's worldview is to extract value from people working on 'their' projects where as, a leader is leveraging the potential of a group of people to co-create value for the community. Ownership is one of the greatest cons of all … Continue reading Ownership or Leadership?
A comparison of OODA loop and a more recent model EDUCE.
When I was teaching leadership to intelligence agents in a far off land, they explained to me that although they loved the concepts they feared they would encounter resistance in the bureaucratic systems they work in. We've all got to become leaders. I wrote a book 'Mercenaries to Missionaries' (see link in comments) which is … Continue reading OPERATION BUTTERFLY (TOP SECRET)
Being able to overcome our habitual decision making gives us a helicopter view. That's important in complex and challenging times. Chances are you'll favour 1 or 2 of the following 4 styles: REACTIONARY: You like to move to think, you tackle challenges head on. You make snap decisions based on your preferences & you like … Continue reading What kind of decision maker are you?
Values can be quite confusing, and more to the point they're pretty useless unless you know how to action them in your decision making process.
Whilst being interviewed I was asked what traits make a good leader. It reminded of an exercise I do on the Mercenary to Missionary Leadership retreats.
Scientific philosopher, Thomas Khune, stated that ‘advancement is not evolutionary, but rather a series of violent revolutions and in such revolutions one conceptual worldview is replaced by another’. Khune called these revolutions in worldviews ‘Paradigm Shifts’ As I was explaining the universal life cycle to a client yesterday, the pandemic was a useful example of … Continue reading What are you going to Stop-Start-Recover & Adapt?
With the desire for remote working from home increasing, then becoming a necessity due to Covid-19, Richard Elwell and I discuss the complexity which makes online meetings an evolution in some ways but also a well-being challenge because it can be so exhausting. We discuss the Mission Power Meeting Methodology and how this can be … Continue reading Overcoming Zoom Fatigue & Enjoying Effective Online Meetings with Mission Power!
Archimedes said, ‘give me a lever long enough and a strong place to stand, and I can move the world’. Well the lever is leadership and the place to stand is humility. With humility the word leader transforms from a noun to a verb. Leading is something that ordinary people can do to leverage the … Continue reading THE FIVE SUPERPOWERS OF GREAT LEADERS
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