Given the pace of change in the last year, do you feel able to adapt your leadership? According to GLS speaker T.D. Jakes, you can adapt yourself better through the metrics of migrative thinking: Migrative thinking = your ability to think differently in order to be effective Metrics = your ability to measure the impact In […]
To use your influence well, you need to inspire others’ trust and respect. You need to be friendly, warm and collaborative, but also powerful, capable and dependable. Harvard research summarises this as hitting the sweet spot between warmth and competence: What’s true for most of us is that we lean towards one end more than […]
Dear Friends Giving Permision Recently on a rainy morning a friend and I approached one of our local coffee shops at 8.30am. It was raining hard. We were told in no uncertain terms that the place was shut and would open at 9am. Innocently, we asked whether we could sit at one of the outside […]
Dear Friends Predicting the future is never an exact science. The internet is filled with future predictions stated with conviction that have been shown to be spectacularly nonsensical. One of my favourites is the prediction of H M Warner of Warner Brothers who in 1927 famously said, “who the h*ll wants to hear actors talk?” […]
Dear Friends Change – The Thing We Mostly Get Wrong The world is stacked with organisations, nations and churches that know they need to change but rarely achieve the kind of changes they envisage. Indeed, most of the changes that happen are more often the outcome of unmanageable and external factors (E.g. a pandemic!) than the […]
Interview series with leadership specialist, Roger Fairhead It’s evident from some of your answers that you’re a man of faith. How does that fit in with your work, if at all? I came to faith at the age of 23 after graduating from Loughborough University. Since then, it has been an important part of my […]
Interview series with leadership specialist, Roger Fairhead What does success look like from here? We should all take more risks. I had a conversation with a Director of a small company which had recently been bought out by a larger rival, and she described the difference in corporate cultures. The smaller company had a corporate […]
Interview series with leadership specialist, Roger Fairhead Can you name a person who has had a tremendous impact on you? Maybe someone who has been a mentor to you? Why and how did this person impact your life? For most of my life, I have drawn inspiration from authors. I travelled a lot in my […]
Process Tools from the GLS interview session with T.D.Jakes and Strive Masiyiwa. Invest in the Next Generation Strive talks about how developing the next generation is not about charity but about investment. In what ways does your organisation set up the next generation to make a positive impact in your community? What is one way you could […]
