Humble Leaders – An Oxymoron?
Someone once told me I was too polite to be a great leader. Asking people to do stuff and saying ‘please’ was apparently not a sign of setting strong direction and providing uncontested leadership....
View ArticleThe 7 Must-Do’s of Innovators
Having spent the last five years in front-end innovation and now moving into a new role managing an innovation process I have come across a few must-do’s when it comes to enabling innovation in...
View ArticleThe Lessons of Great Followership
Followership? Doesn’t have that sexy ring to it like leadership has. I’m ready to bet there are more blogs and posts out there (including on mine) devoted to what constitutes great leadership, than...
View ArticleCan conflict add value?
A discussion I had at a recent company seminar, captured the complicated relationship many of us have with conflict. One of my colleagues spoke of a challenging position in the middle of opposing...
View ArticleDefinition of a successful life
Couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to nip back to my native Finland for a good proper ‘Släkt Fest’ – Family Party, as my uncle, now the oldest […]
View ArticleThe greater the resilience, the greater the chance of success
Over the past year I have learned a lot about […]
View ArticleWhat Makes a Good Leader?
Check out this excellent by Megan Richter at the Thin Difference blog: What Makes a Good Leader?.Filed under: Leadership
View ArticleHow to be more resilient
In a previous post I wrote about how resilience is far more powerful a predictor of success than age, gender, nationality, educational background – well, pretty much anything. The […]
View ArticleFinding what drives you
Recently I sat down with a friend who was very excited. She had applied to the MIT Media Lab and couldn’t wait to hear back if she had been accepted. […]
View ArticleHow to use design and creativity for a strategic advantage — Medium
This post in Medium is an excellent reminder of how to approach creativity and design, not as a nice to have or an accidental by-product of team work – but something worthy of deliberate practice and...
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