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Every conference has a session on it. Every podcast has covered it. Every single human on LinkedIn seems to have an . And if you’re a leader who hasn’t made Artificial Intelligence (AI) part of your p...
 Most leaders tackle development with gut instinct, feedback from people who don’t want to upset them, or well-intentioned but ultimately forgettable training courses.
Sound familiar? Not quite cutti...
Leadership lessons don’t always come from strategy decks or business schools. Sometimes they come from a regional manager who grilled his foot on a George Foreman grill, declared bankruptcy by shoutin...
If you asked your team to rate your leadership in the form of a report card, it’s easy to get starry-eyed imagining glowing reviews. Bags of integrity, thoughtful, commercially sharp, easy on the eye....
 It’s easy to drift into theory when talking about behavioral leadership skills. Vision, strategy, influence, resilience. All that jazz. The issue is that people talk about these skills as if they’re ...
 Leadership strategies are everywhere. Bookshelves are full of them, podcasts churn them out faster than anyone can keep up with, and LinkedIn has no shortage of bright ideas. But when it comes to sca...
We’ve all been there. A windowless hotel conference room. A lukewarm coffee. An “expert” flipping through a generic PowerPoint deck.
Yep, we’re talking about traditional management training. Or leade...
The annual delusion festival
Right then, it's that time of year: the gyms are preparing for their annual invasion; the stationery shops are flogging pristine planners to people who'll abandon them by...
Leaders rarely enter January with the clean slate they think they do. Oh no. Instead, they enter it with a head full of assumptions, unresolved tensions, and unhelpful leadership patterns and habits f...
December can be a strange old time for your leadership mindset. The calendar starts thinning, the pace slows, and the temptation to write 20 unrealistic resolutions calls to you like a January diet th...
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Kind of.
Of course, we love the festive period, but it can be incredibly stressful for leaders and teams. Why? Because late November and December are when bu...
You might have the best instincts in the game, but any leader can lose sight of what’s important. And it’s not because you don’t have the right leadership traits, but because you’ve got a lot on your ...