Tag: leadership
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Article (6.08) The Mule and the Tightrope Walker: Lessons in ‘Both/And’ Leadership
Most advice about tension in organisations promises a mule. Take two opposing demands, breed them together, and out comes something stronger and smarter than either parent, which is why the […]
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Article (6.07) Leadership and Technology, for the Wider Human Experience
A man builds a device so the woman he loves, who is losing her sight, can write to him without dictating her words through another person’s hand. It becomes the […]
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Article (6.06): 97 Ways to Get What You Want
A chief executive can control the budget, the strategy or who gets promoted, yet still be unable to get one direct report to say what is actually going wrong on […]
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Article (Cheeky Half 41): Human dignity in the age of AI.
Most AI commentary settles into one of two registers. In the doomsday version, the technology is coming for the jobs, and the reckoning is overdue. In the utopian version, it […]
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Article (6.05): Leading with an Open Heart
The inner critic has a gift. That’s not what you’d expect from a voice that’s been calling you a loser for much of your life, but Steve Ray, a groupwork […]
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Article (Cheeky Half 40): AI is not just a tool. It’s a reflection of who we are.
Think of AI as a mirror. Whatever quality of thinking a person brings to it, it reflects back, amplified. That observation cuts across the two rails that most AI discourse […]
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Article (6.04) A Kaleidoscope, Not a Recipe: Systemic Leadership in Polycrisis
Edinburgh, early 1990s. A young woman working in drug education walks out of another meeting that has produced nothing. She falls into step beside the head of the local drug […]
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Article (Cheeky Half 39). Did you experience A LOT OF stress yesterday? You aren’t alone.
If you can’t see the embedded player above this line, click here. There is something impressive about releasing a 251-page report and leading with a headline that is technically true and […]
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Article (Ep 6.03). Leading through Consciousness: Seeing Things ‘As They Are’.
If you can’t see the embedded player above this line, click here. There is a point in most leadership conversations where an idea becomes recognisable. A penny drops. Like walking […]