Feel the fear and do it anyway …

Posted on November 21, 2008. Filed under: leadership, organisational culture, social media | Tags: , , , , , |

For the first time, I’ve started writing a blog post without really having a clear idea about what I want to say or what point I want to get across. Given the growing tide of bad news battering our lives at the moment, it felt like a good idea to write something about … well [...]

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Adapt or die …

Posted on October 16, 2008. Filed under: Web 2.0, credit crunch, leadership, organisational culture, social media | Tags: , , , |

It’s weird, you spend your whole life never having heard a particular quote, and then it pops up everywhere … the one in question in this case is this one:

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to [...]

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What is leadership in conversational ‘chaos’?

Posted on June 23, 2008. Filed under: leadership, organisational culture | Tags: , , |

I was thinking about this question yesterday … my preliminary, unrefined thoughts on the subject are … that, if you accept that the hierarchical, command and control organisation structure has a limited lifespan, to be overtaken by the network (see more here), the question arises: what does leadership look like in a network-based organisation … [...]

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There’s no place like ‘you’ …

Posted on October 27, 2007. Filed under: communications, leadership, social media | Tags: , |

The world is awash with clever, insightful and witty quotes about and from ‘great’ leaders of the past and present about the nature of leadership itself. Conference organisers fill thousands of seats full of people each year hopeful of picking up the golden nugget that will propel them to greatness in whatever sphere they aspire [...]

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