Resilience is not the skill we are looking for
Don’t get me wrong, resilience is of course a good thing. It matters that we can bounce back. It’s important that we don’t learn to fail, and that we exercise courage,…
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Peace and goodwill to all for a global healing.
And at the end of a very challenging year a message about how we can actually create a culture of peace and goodwill to all. To help us all to be calm, mindful and powerful even in stressful or…
Read MoreChange is easy – really?
This week I have a tale of two client transformation projects. Both are very conventional businesses that have been around for over 30 years. Both manufacture a product that is then…
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If leadership is in crisis, what is leadership?
We know it when we see it. We complain when it isn’t there. We look for someone else to do it. We vilify those who stand out by demonstrating it. We critique those who oversimplify it. We…
Read MoreWhat happens to work?
It is hard to pick out many consistent themes from the intense disruption we have all experienced in 2020. Coronavirus has massively accelerated a number of trends that were already underway –…
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Transformation Anarchist Imagery Ada Lovelace — Alfred Edward Chalon / Public domainAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez — Franmarie Metzler; U.S. House Office of Photography / Public domainCoco Chanel —…
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Love in a time of Coronavirus
*With apologies to Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I am an agent of change. I have been working to deliver change for my whole career, either as an operational leader in business and the military, or for the…
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VICA Leadership for a VUCA World
The term VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) has been with us for a while now. Coined by the US Army War College in the ’90s, it was swiftly adopted by business to describe the…
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Who is Jeremy? Jeremy is a facilitator and executive coach with particular expertise in leadership development, leading collaborative change and team-building. He has been independent since 1995 with…
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