Ilon Specht’s iconic “L’Oréal” tagline, created in 1971, significantly impacted feminism and highlighted the power of clear communication. This post is about lessons for leaders that we can learn from this iconic piece of creativity.
Leaders must understand problems to guide teams effectively. A common mistake is not fully exploring issues. By adopting different perspectives and reframing problems—as suggested by James Gilmore and Stephen Shapiro—we can simplify or broaden our approach, focus on impactful factors, and innovate solutions. Reframing through 25 methods in 5 categories helps identify root issues and leverage various solutions. Quality solutions depend on the questions we ask, and combining reframes offers diverse, impactful resolutions.
Leaders must adopt emergent leadership in a rapidly changing world with new workforce expectations, technological advancements, and increasing competition. Becoming intentional, aware, and capable of sense-making is key, alongside viewing actions as experiments and monitoring for unintended consequences, thus necessitating continuous dynamic adaptation and a cultural shift away from rigid planning towards empowerment and engagement.
This is a quote that resonated with me a lot! This one comes from Alexi Pappas, who is an actor, filmmaker, author and an Olympian and she wrote and directed a movie while pursuing her dream to become an Olympian. In a world where everyone is asked to niche down and focus on one thing and one thing only, she has proved that you can not only do multiple things at the same time and be successful at both of them simultaneously. It is my personal belief is very similar. At any given point in time, I am working on […]
In one of her interviews, Olympian, author and film maker Alexi Pappas shares what she learnt from her coach – The Rule of Thirds. According to the rule, if we are pursuing a worthy goal, a third of the time we are in pursuit we should feel great, a third of the time, we should feel ok and a third of the time we should feel bad. If the proportion of the time we feel great, ok and bad is around the same, we are on track. On days when we feel shitty, we can just attribute it to one […]
