Category: Leadership
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#57: How should we be celebrating failure?
There might very well be a thousand motivational quotes about failure. A large amount of them attributed to Albert Einstein 🙂 It’s a populist subject. Probably because ‘fear of failure’ affects most people. Evolution has wired us up that way. And very often, right from the very first time we attempted something unsuccessfully … Experience…
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#56: What feedback loops have we engineered?
When it comes to achieving significant goals (such as unleashing growth in your business) – it’s helpful to ask yourself: ‘How do you eat an elephant?’ Of course, the elephant is metaphorical and the answer is ‘one bite at a time’. Simply put, your achievement of big goals is only made possible by the achievement…
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#54: Who am I ‘being’ that is giving my people permission to let me down?
If you constantly find yourself being let down by your people, I’ve got some good news and some bad news. First the bad news – it’s not easy to change people. It’s a bit like the old joke. Do you know the one … ‘How many psychologists does it take to change a lightbulb?’ The…
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#53: Are we overvaluing ‘years of experience’ when hiring?
As a CEO, the ultimate success (or lack thereof) of your company depends on your team members. Sure, you also need great products, customers, systems and processes, intellectual property, etc. – but without a competent team holding it all together … Everything you’ve built crumbles to the ground. Since your job is to ensure this…
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#50: Do we know what we don’t know?
At a news briefing in 2002, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld attempted to explain the limitations of intelligence reports: “There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are…