We know from extensive research that self-awareness is the most important of all leadership skills. It’s the skill that helps us interrupt our reactive habits that take us away from our values. It’s what gives us the ability to manage the physical and emotional...
The Trust Deficit in Leadership The basis of leadership credibility is trust. As Stephen M. R. Covey explain in his book The Speed of Trust, ‘Trust always affects two measurable outcomes: speed and cost. When trust goes down, speed goes down and cost goes up....
In their book The Leadership Challenge, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner explain that, ‘Leadership begins with a belief in yourself and continues only if other people believe in you.’ To believe in you, people have to know (1) who you are and what you stand for, and...
One of the primary reasons why leaders struggle with changing both themselves and their organisational cultures is that they fail to differentiate between horizontal development and vertical growth, and they focus most of their growth efforts on horizontal...
For the past 20 years I have worked with leaders and organisations to help create positive change in both. In my work, I differentiate between horizontal development and vertical growth, and I focus primarily on vertical growth. Horizontal development means developing...
