The blog will pick a word of the week, to share & explore the selected word. Here’s an expression for the word – leadership. Great leadership is inspiring others, setting a clear direction & empowering people to achieve their full potential. Leadership is the capacity to translate vision & learning into reality. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way & shows the way” – John Maxwell 

Dare To Lead shares that leadership isn’t about titles, status or wielding power. A leader is really self-aware, one who takes the responsibility for recognising the potential in people & has the vision to develop that potential. When we Dare To Lead, we don’t always have the right answers. We learn to stay calm, curious & creative to ask the right questions. Knowledge becomes infinite when we listen, when we share it with others.

Leadership in a culture defined by uncertainty requires skill building around traits that are uniquely human. What can we do better? Empathy, efficiency, transparency, integrity, discovery, inclusivity? Brene Brown shares that great leaders ask the same question. How do we cultivate more inspiring leaders, how do we embed the value of courage, creativity & compassion in our culture? 

Brown writes that leadership is a collection of four skill sets that are teachable, observable & measurable. Passion, creativity, our ability to learn or un-learn & showing up with our whole heart. Easy? No. Worth it? Always. Dare To Lead. An incredibly motivational read.

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The blog will pick a word of the week, to share & explore the selected word. Here’s an expression for the word – leadership. Great leadership is inspiring others, setting a clear direction & empowering people to achieve their full potential. Leadership is the capacity to translate vision & learning into reality. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way & shows the way” – John Maxwell 

Joseph Michelli shares great leadership lessons from 140+ senior leaders at major companies, who share their specific challenges & how they are overcoming obstacles to lead effectively.

Stronger Through Adversity distills the best leadership practices, organised into four main themes – set the foundation, build connections, move with purpose & harness change. A deep dive into the methods, tactics & approaches that leaders have leveraged to move forward from chaos & confusion. Incredibly valuable insights into crisis management, motivating teams, maintaining a culture of positive engagement & rapidly innovating. Stronger Through Adversity helps us lead, to weather the toughest challenges & to thrive in all kinds of storms. Inspirational.

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The blog will pick a word of the week, to share & explore the selected word. Here’s an expression for the word – leadership. Great leadership is inspiring others, setting a clear direction & empowering people to achieve their full potential. Leadership is the capacity to translate vision & learning into reality. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way & shows the way” – John Maxwell 

We know a visionary leader when we meet one. They’re brilliant, prophetic yet pragmatic. They promote growth with an inspirational drive.

Lead From The Future

In Lead from the Future, Innosight’s Mark Johnson & Josh Suskewicz introduce a new way of managing called future-back that enables a manager to become a practical leader. Addresses the barriers in established organisations & presents a systematic approach to overcome leadership challenges. Incredible insights on the:

• principles & mind-sets that allow leaders to look beyond short-term planning
• methods to turn emerging challenges into growth opportunities for the future
• step-by-step approach for translating vision into an aligned strategic plan
• ways to ensure that visionary thinking becomes a repeatable organisational capability
• models to stimulate innovation & creativity

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The blog will pick a word of the week, to share & explore the selected word. Here’s an expression for the word – leadership. Great leadership is inspiring others, setting a clear direction & empowering people to achieve their full potential. Leadership is the capacity to translate vision & learning into reality. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way & shows the way” – John Maxwell 

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The blog will pick a word of the week, to share & explore the selected word. Here’s an expression for the word – leadership. Great leadership is inspiring others, setting a clear direction & empowering people to achieve their full potential. Leadership is the capacity to translate vision & learning into reality. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way & shows the way” – John Maxwell 

Everyone is buzzing about artificial intelligence, but few understand how it’ll affect the way organisations are managed or led. How will algorithms change leadership? Which aspects of leadership are unlikely to be replaced by machines? Will our next boss be a robot? Can an AI boss display human qualities that define a good leader – empathy, imagination, creativity & strategic awareness? In Leadership by Algorithm, David De Cremer offers startling insights into leadership qualities needed to balance humans & machines.

Leadership by Algorithm

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The blog will pick a word of the week, to share & explore the selected word. Here’s an expression for the word – leadership. Great leadership is inspiring others, setting a clear direction & empowering people to achieve their full potential. Leadership is the capacity to translate vision & learning into reality. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way & shows the way” – John Maxwell 

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The blog will pick a word of the week, to share & explore the selected word. Here’s an expression for the word – strength. “There is tremendous strength in growing our world through sharing together, hoping together & working together” – Mother Teresa

“Winners win because they’re the best at picking themselves up & trying again. You want to become a master at overcoming hard moments. The best in the world are not the best because they win every point. It’s because they lose again & again, but have learned how to deal with it. One of my big strengths early on in my career was that I could just stay in the moment, trust my game & my strength that I could turn to.

What I think I’ve been able to do well over the years is play with pain, play with problems, play in all sorts of conditions. I’m a very positive thinker, I think that is what helps me in the most in difficult moments. See the positive possibilities. Redirect substantial energy into effective, unstoppable determination” – Roger Federer

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The blog will pick a word of the week, to share & explore the selected word. Here’s an expression for the word – strength. “There is tremendous strength in growing our world through sharing together, hoping together & working together” – Mother Teresa

“It’s a quiet night tonight, isn’t it, Piglet?” said Pooh, gazing up at the stars. “It certainly is,” said Piglet. “What do you think the stars talk about?” asked Pooh. Piglet thought for a moment. “I think they talk about light. About how even in the darkest skies, they shine as best as they can, no matter how small they are. Because they know that someone, somewhere is looking up & needs to see them.”

Pooh smiled. “That’s a lovely thought, Piglet. Do you think we’re like that too? Little stars, shining for each other?” Piglet nodded. “Yes, Pooh. I think that’s what we’re meant to do. To be a little light for someone, even when the night feels very big & very dark.” Pooh sat quietly for a moment, then said, “If that’s true, Piglet, then I think you’re the brightest star I know. Even on my gloomiest days, you make me feel like everything will be alright.” “And you’re mine Pooh,” said Piglet softly. “Because with you, I always feel safe, even when the woods seem scary or the path isn’t clear. I feel strong. Some burdens feel lighter when we don’t carry them alone.”

They sat silently under the stars, wrapped in the kind of quiet love & understanding that doesn’t need grand gestures or fancy words. Just presence. Just care. Just two lights shining for each other in the great big world. “What do you think we should do tomorrow?” asked Pooh. “I think we should just keep shining,” said Piglet. So they did. Stronger together. Always.

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The blog will pick a word of the week, to share & explore the selected word. Here’s an expression for the word – strength. “There is tremendous strength in growing our world through sharing together, hoping together & working together” – Mother Teresa

“Just like a muscle needs to tear to grow stronger, sometimes we need to wade into our own darkness to find a brighter light” – Lori Deschene. Often, we need to journey into the deepest, darkest & most painful places inside us to feel, listen, learn & grow. We can create a lot of stories in our head. These stories become limiting beliefs that we carry around for a long time. Beliefs like, “I’m not good enough,” “I don’t have a say,” “I need to prove that I’m worthy,” “I need to be perfect” (just to name a few).

None of us are immune to the fears & self doubt that pop up when life happens. All the negative self talk that keeps us stuck, happens to re-surface. If, we can stay committed to the path of personal growth, we can see how all of the pain & struggles that we have been through actually happened for us, not to us. All of it was for a reason.

Everything that we’ve been through, every challenge that has kept us away from what we want the most in life, it’s all within our power to improve or change. If we decide that we do deserve it. Healing is not linear. There will be highs & lows, laughs & tears, moments of total bliss & moments of complete uncertainty. But, our inner strength, our intuitive core is there through it all, to see us come out stronger. Cheering us on from the sidelines, always there for support. Because, on the other side of the fear, pain & darkness, lies our solace, serenity, strength & success.

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The blog will pick a word of the week, to share & explore the selected word. Here’s an expression for the word – strength. “There is tremendous strength in growing our world through sharing together, hoping together & working together” – Mother Teresa

Read Brené Brown’s The Gifts of Imperfection. A classic guide that stimulates to find our strength, empathy & compassion to overcome fears, to honour the connection with our world, to believe that we’re worthy of joy, discovery & abundance. Aims to bolster our self esteem, creativity & personal development through heart felt storytelling. With plenty of encouragement & humility, helps us release the definitions of imperfection to fully embrace who we are. Beautiful benchmarks to find beauty, belief & balance in a perfectly imperfect world. Offers simple techniques to let go of self defeating thoughts, so we can naturally embrace all our imperfections & vulnerabilities. Positive, inspiring & motivational.

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