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Character Over Competence: The Leadership Shift We Can No Longer Ignore
Over the years, I've had the privilege of working with leaders from many different organisations, industries, and countries. I've met incredibly intelligent people—people with exceptional technical expertise, impressive qualifications, and years of experience. Yet, if...
Understanding Leadership: The Power of Servant Leadership
Introduction Leadership is one of the most influential yet misunderstood concepts in business, government, and society. Many people associate leadership with authority, position, or the power to direct others. However, true leadership is not determined by titles or...
Navigating Legacy Teams in Banking Leadership
The General Context Stepping into leadership of a team you did not assemble is one of the most delicate transitions in management. When you inherit a team, you’re not just managing headcount; you’re shaping or reshaping culture. Unlike building a team from scratch,...
The Price of Approval
I'm currently reading The Life You've Always Wanted by John Ortberg. One section that has stayed with me is what he calls "approval addiction." It's not a term I had heard before, but it immediately resonated with me. The more I reflect on it, the more I see how this...
There Is No Superior Race. There Is Only Superior Culture.
Throughout history, humanity has wrestled with the dangerous idea of a "superior race." Wars have been fought over it. Nations have been divided by it. Millions have suffered because of it. Personally, I reject the concept entirely. I do not believe that one race is...
How to Level Up Like a Resilient Leader
Thriving in an Age of Permanent Disruption The era of predictable leadership is over. Today's leaders operate in a world defined by constant disruption, driven by technological advances, economic uncertainty, geopolitical shifts, evolving workforce expectations, and...
Human-Centred Leadership
Why I Believe Leadership Is Becoming More Human Again Over the years, I have noticed something interesting in the world of leadership. For a long time, leadership was largely measured by results, targets, productivity, and performance. And while those things...
Good Is No Longer Good Enough: The Leadership Gap Costing Organisations More Than They Realise
There is a leadership crisis unfolding inside organisations right now. And most leaders are not even aware they are part of it. It is not a crisis of bad leadership. Most organisations do not have many truly poor leaders. They have something far more common and far...
Uncap Your Life
“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” –Steve Jobs It is amazing what one can do when the limits, real or imaginary, are taken off. Who even sets the status quo and limits? Consider which limits are real, and which...
How to Make the Difference by Coaching Your Team Instead of Carrying Them
Introduction Leaders often confuse dedication with overextension. Carrying your team, doing their work, solving their problems, may feel noble, but it creates dependency and burnout. If your team can’t function without you in the room, you don’t have a team, you have...
Your Teams Are Capable. So Why Is Performance Still Falling Short?
The gap between good people and great results is almost never about talent. It is about what is happening around the talent. There is a conversation that happens in leadership teams that almost never gets written down. It usually sounds like this: the people are good,...
Values and Principles: Living on Purpose
Why are some individuals more fulfilled than others? Why are some families, teams, departments, companies and even countries, effective, and healthy, whilst others just never experience sustainable success? I believe a whole lot of that can be explained if we study...