Category: Leadership
Failure and Success
Failure is often considered to be the opposite of success. However, truly successful people know that failure is an integral part of any success! It’s very rare indeed that someone finds success without meeting failure along the way. If they do, the success doesn’t last as long as they would like it to! So, we would do well to learn how to look at failure and how we deal with it when we come face to face with it. When we do come face to face with failure, it would be great to look to what we can learn from […]
Winds of Change
We now live in a world where the winds of change rage faster and faster. The attitude and the ability to build windmills will make or break our careers in the mid-to-long term. Are you ready? Do we have the necessary mindset, the required toolsets and the skillsets to make this a reality? I have been talking about the need for leaders to understand that almost all leadership is about leading through change. So, if we want to be better leaders, we need to be able to lead our teams through the raging winds of change while building windmills that […]
Elevate Your Leadership Effectiveness
Premise One of the core responsibilities we have as leaders is to think about our business and continuously reflect on how we can improve the overall effectiveness of our leadership, our teams and therefore the business. Here are four questions that we need to reflect upon on a regular basis, and when done well, they can help elevate the effectiveness of our leadership: Questions to ask Yourself Regularly 1} What am I not paying attention to? Why? What can I do about it? 2} What is being left unsaid by my team members? Why? What can I do about it? […]
Future-proofing Your Team
As leaders, it is our responsibility to help those we lead become future proof, both as individuals and as a team. We are living in a world where things are changing really fast with AI technology leading the way. I would not be surprised if there is a big shuffle or restructure in terms of the composition of the workforce (human, robots and algorithms) and their respective roles in the organization. I believe that it is our responsibility to help our teams stay relevant in these turbulent and emergent future. We can do so by helping them learn new skills […]