Innovation, mess, or magic? What Tim Harford’s Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives offers of relevance to innovators and thought leaders.
How best can you, a senior-level corporate executive, find your corporate thought leaders and work with them, particularly if they don’t slip easily into the mainstream?
If you are a thought leader, chances are life has not been easy or comfortable; more likely awkward and frustrating. Nonetheless, we need you.
Feeling battered and bruised by life? World events, politics, life at work got you down? Maybe you are smashing into flow…
Some days, life stinks. Work feels like a trap, full of crazy people you have nothing in common with, most of whom are out to get you, or at least so it feels. Your side job is falling apart. You have no partner to vent to, or the one you have suddenly feels like […]
Love in business?? Anathema, no? You can’t fall in love with your clients – much too messy, you say? Well, you can fall in healthy love…
Is this a misstep or an opportunity? You’ve joined a new organization, and been given an amazing opportunity. It’s the opportunity of a lifetime, a recognition of your skills and experience, something for which you’ve been waiting for years. So you dive right in…and scrape your face on the bottom of the pool, in the […]
It was colleagues at UK business school Ashridge who helped me see how powerful an experiential metaphor for leadership dance can be. Here’s why.
Sometimes we are prompted to do unusual things that our logical mind tells us are dumb, even impracticable. Sometimes those things turn out to move us in directions we would not have allowed ourselves to go, that serve us in ways we could not have imagined. Here’s how one of those worked out for me.
It is better for your health, it makes the best use of you, and you get to live a life you love. Why would you not design your business (or your career) to suit you?