How to Be a Purpose-Driven Leader, legacy will define your leadership, find your creative energy, 3 CEO mistakes to avoid and more.
Thank you for reading my latest article. In my work as an advisor, coach and consultant to ambitious and leading boards, CEO’s, executives and teams, I come across important developments and people that are shaping the future of business and leadership. Every Friday I share my round-up of interesting stories so you can find the most important leadership and business thinking. I hope you enjoy them! If you haven’t already, feel free to follow me on LinkedIn or Twitter. Happy reading!
Discover Your Leadership Score
The Influential Leadership Scorecard benchmarks your ability to lead with influence and identifies opportunities for growth. Discover how you score against the high performance leadership indicators and increase your ability to motivate and inspire others.
5 Ways A Legacy-Driven Mindset Will Define Your Leadership
Your leadership is not shaped and your legacy is not defined at the end of the road but rather by the moments shared, the decisions made, the actions taken, and even the mistakes overcome throughout the many phases of your career.
Three Mistakes Even The Smartest CEOs Make
A chief executive’s unchecked vulnerability can have dire consequences on organizational performance, employee engagement and talent retention, not to mention his or her reputation.
Great leaders + great coaches = creative energy
When you have leaders in place that are great coaches, you are able to unleash the creative energy of your organisation. It is the direct result of teams that feel energised, that feel trusted and that feel their actions contribute to a compelling vision that is greater than themselves alone.
How to Be Creative When You’re Feeling Stressed
What should you do if you’re feeling stressed, but people are still expecting you to produce creative solutions? When your brain operates at full capacity, you may have the ability to come up with creative thoughts on the fly. But when you’re less than 100%, you’ll have a much better chance of success by giving your brain time to percolate on ideas for a few days.
Struggling to fight burnout? This may be the missing fix you need
Rehashing even the smallest errors and looking over everything with a magnifying glass might make us seem “meticulous,” but in reality, we’re playing the self-blame game. Because if we don’t get things just right, we start mentally berating ourselves—a surefire path to burnout.
How to Be a Purpose-Driven Leader in a Capitalist World
Today’s business school education isn’t suited to the big challenges facing the world — climate change, economic inequality and racial injustice — that the leaders of tomorrow will be expected to solve. So, how can students and young professionals succeed in a system that primarily rewards profit?
From last weeks edition:
- 5 Key Trends Leaders Need to Understand to Get Hybrid Right
- Why investing in mental health should be CEOs biggest concern in 2022
- Are You Ready To Start Over? Let’s Bust the Top 3 Myths You’ll Face
- Agile Doesn’t Work Without Psychological Safety
- Marshall Goldsmith launches new book – The Earned Life
- Problems Really Are Best Addressed Before They Arise
- Why is a ‘growth mindset’ critical in negotiations?
- Strategy execution does not mean sticking to the plan
- How to work a 4-day week without overloading on meetings
- 4 Books to Improve Your Customers’ Lifetime Value
- 4 Ways to Stop Getting Distracted and Start Hitting Goals
About Me
I’m a global business & executive coach, strategic advisor and consultant with over 25 years of experience building, developing and scaling global, market-leading companies. I am obsessively passionate about helping leaders, change-makers and businesses to grow faster and unlock breakthrough results and I’ve been privileged to be trusted to advise 100’s of CEO’s from multi-billion dollar international corporates to start-ups.
Whether you are a new CEO looking to embed your leadership, an organisation undergoing major strategic and transformational change, or an executive team that wants to improve performance, I can help you and your team overcome your challenges and address your most important opportunities. I also provide longer-term support as a Non-Executive Chairman / Director or Board Advisor and serves on the board for several organisations.
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