Is Creativity The Most Important Leadership Skill?
In 2010 in an IBM Global CEO study creativity was highlighted as the most Important Leadership skill by 1 541 CEOs, general managers, and senior public sector leaders who represent different sizes of organisations in 60 countries and 33 industries. Chief executives...
When Children Don’t Play
There’s something most horrid that happens as we get older, somewhere on the journey from 11 to 23, and it involves the eradication of a fundamental part of what makes us human, and that is the ability to play. But it doesn’t stop there. Not only is it...
Jobs That Robots Will Not Replace
Are robots taking our jobs? Over the last few weeks, I’ve written a few posts around machines and robots and how they’ll be kicking you out of your job as soon as they build one that can, which won’t be very long at all. You can read those here, and here. According to...
Don’t F#ck Up The Culture
Culture eats strategy for breakfast A well known and often quoted statement from the late Peter Drucker. Said much, acted on less. Far less. In my humble opinion. Matters of people almost always give way to matters of operational efficiency and making ginormous...
An Unsafe Book You Should Be Reading?
It’s a question I often ask during a presentation I might be giving. A challenge to the audience around the books they’re reading, or rather should be reading. I’m of the opinion that, in business, we read what I term, ‘safe books’. The...
