People will never forget how you made them feel

“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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Leadership is Inspiration, the Creation of New Life and Energy

The French word for people who seek to create systemic change is animateur. An animateur (from the root animer) is someone who ‘brings to life’ a new way of thinking, seeing or interacting that creates focus and energy. Continue reading

How change does happen – Jim Collins

Now picture a huge, heavy flywheel. It’s a massive, metal disk mounted horizontally on an axle. Continue reading

Distinguishing leadership and authority

The scarcity of leadership from people in authority, makes it all the more critical to the adaptive successes of a polity that leadership be exercised by people without authority. Continue reading

Seven Things You Need to Know About Clever People

Leaders should be aware of the characteristics most clever people share, which collectively make them a difficult crew to manage. Continue reading

Great enemy of truth is very often not the lie but the myth….

As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we must move on from the reassuring repetition of stale phrases to a new, difficult, but essential confrontation with reality. Continue reading