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LAST Conference 2019 – 3 Ways to Become More Self-Aware
Posted on July 30, 2019 Leave a Comment
Here are the slides from my LAST Conference Talk today. Self-awareness is about learning to observe yourself not only through your own eyes but through others people’s eyes too. When you are self-aware, you know your strengths and weaknesses and how to manage them in the workplace. The talk introduces a model for developing self-awareness […]
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LAST Conference 2018 – Overcoming Your Immunity To Change
Posted on August 10, 2018 Leave a Comment
My conference talk at LAST 2018 titled “Overcoming Your Immunity To Change” is available on Slideshare. We talk about people needing to change their mindsets or have an agile mindset. But what does this really mean? In this session we will cover a brief introduction to the research by Kegan and Lahey where they discovered that […]
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Lead And Own Your Business Transformation
Posted on June 10, 2017 4 Comments
The World Is Rapidly Changing The world has changed and the pace of change is accelerating rapidly. The customer is the new boss and their expectations are higher. Empowered customers increasingly expect you to do business on their terms. Digital disruption is changing how companies deliver the value proposition of existing goods and services. Globalisation has […]
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LAST Conference 2016 – Agile Innovation and Thinking Like a Startup
Posted on July 21, 2016 Leave a Comment
My presentation at LAST Conference 2016 titled “Agile Innovation and Thinking Like a Startup” is available on Slideshare. Many enterprises are struggling to innovate whilst smaller startups are disrupting the market. Existing organisational business models work well in a known and predictable environment. However, these approaches fail when applied to an uncertain and changing environment. In this […]
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Leaders need to focus on providing Clarity and Competence, not control
Posted on March 2, 2016 Leave a Comment
Self-organising teams is the antithesis to hierarchical structures that exist in many organisations. Traditional leadership required a strong leader to take control, attract followers and make it happen. Modern leadership is about leaders giving control and creating leaders. Self-organisation requires autonomy and control to be given to teams. This includes trusting individuals to figure out how to solve problems, make […]
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Leadership Debt
Posted on October 29, 2015 2 Comments
For the past 10 years I have been working with various organisations to humanise the workplace, help improve the leadership capability and dampen the toxic culture that may currently exit. A recent article (28 Oct 2015) in the news has provided no relief. The article indicated that the thinking and culture of tomorrow’s leaders being taught at school’s […]
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The Improvement Paradox – Too Busy To Improve?
Posted on August 5, 2015 Leave a Comment
A bad system will beat a good person every time. – W. Edwards Deming. I believe that everyone does their best given the context and environment at hand. I subscribe to Deming’s views that it is the organisation as a system, not the people working in the system that determines the organisation’s performance. The other […]
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Leadership styles
Posted on November 30, 2011 Leave a Comment
Donald Gray has written a great and interesting article on Three Leadership Styles, based observations on managing traffic at an intersection. In the article the most successful leader is the one that sees people as “adults that most of the time they can take care of themselves, and that the role of a manager is […]
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Learning from mistakes – it’s all about continuous improvement
Posted on August 18, 2011 1 Comment
Kaizen (改善), Japanese for “improvement”, or “change for the better” refers to philosophy or practices that focus upon continuous improvement of processes. Teams I coach frequently ask me for “best practices”. Do not assume that “best practices” in previous projects will be equally successful in another project. In some cases, “best practices” from one context can be […]
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As Work Changes, So Must Managers
Posted on April 28, 2010 Leave a Comment
Here is an article published in The Wall Street Journal earlier this year which is very relevant to today’s rapidly changing environment and the role of managers on Agile Projects. (Mark Hurd who was my former CEO at HP is mentioned in the article) What is a manager? In simplest terms, a manager is someone […]
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