It was an informal meeting in a hotel bar with 4 or 5 people present. I'd been asked to say a bit about this myself. This from someone I'd met only a few hours previously. Nothing very unusual about …
How do you reach the problem person?
It's so often the way, isn't it? Somebody you're in touch with really sees the change you can help them make in their business. The trouble is... The person who most needs to change is someone else …
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The unchanging nature of leadership
We’re so accustomed to ever-present change and the need to lead ourselves and others through challenging times, we’re inclined to think leadership itself is a changing field. I am anyway, or I …
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Constrained or radical?
If you're on the inside, it can be hard to stimulate change in the wider system because although you have some explicit authority, you're constrained by your stakeholders' expectations. We can't …
Humility and influence
Do those with the most humility have the most influence? Or is vocalising knowledge and expertise an essential part of gaining the attention required to make a difference? Often it seems that those …
Are we talking about the same thing?
The conversation seems to go round in circles. Actually, it would be more accurate to say it meanders all over the place. The participants do seem to be talking about one subject though. After all, …
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