Nina Nets It Out
Leadership is not the end point; its task is to create an environment in which other leaders can flourish. Let the conversation begin!
Backing innovation: The smart leader’s money should be on female founders
When it comes to backing innovation – whether in the enterprise or in the startup sector, there is a great deal of value to unlock by promoting and supporting women. Leaders can make personal, professional and industry-wide impacts when they strategically back female founders and emerging women leaders.
Five Essentials for Your Disruptive Innovation Radar
How do you keep a watching brief on business opportunity? As a leader you need to develop a disruptive innovation radar that helps you see beyond the horizon.
The Entrepreneur’s Mindset – Finding the Comfort in Discomfort
Leaders don’t have to be entrepreneurs – but they do need an entrepreneurial mindset. The leaders of the future will embrace change and chaos, and will find comfort in discomfort.
Growth Mindset: Are You the Problem?
What would describe your leadership style? Would others say you have a fixed or a growth mindset? Here’s why you should aim for growth.
Beat the Employee Engagement Crisis by Leading for the Future with Your Head, Heart and Hands
Employee engagement is fundamental to high performance and business growth, and it can be substantially impacted by your performance as a leader. Take a future-forward mindset, and work to improve employee engagement using your head, heart and hands, and you’ll be surprised how quickly growth is impacted.
To Create Innovation, Avoid the Shiny Object Syndrome
We are all attracted to the new. But is your innovation lasting or is just bright and shiny?
Lessons Learned from a Year of Innovating
2016 was a year of disruption, change and innovation. What have we learned?
Saying Yes to High Visibility Projects – Five Steps to Visible Success
No matter whether you are just starting out in your career or about to retire, saying “yes” to high visibility projects should be at the top of your list of priorities.
Innovating Across Three Horizons
I will be the first to admit that numbers matter. It matters that you set them, pursue them and achieve them. As leaders, we need to be across the numbers - from revenue targets to cost centers, investments to acquisitions, and everything in between. But not all...
Innovation – It’s Like Juggling Chainsaws
Leaders struggle to balance the competing needs of near term and longer term objectives. But it doesn’t have to be that way. By taking a structured approach to innovation we can learn to balance new innovation alongside our existing businesses.
Come Drive with Me
Today I walked out of the office and into the fresh air. I stopped, looked across the parking lot, looked to the sky and began to walk. I took my time. I took long, deep breaths and felt the clear, unfiltered air filling my body. My head cleared and I scanned the...
Three Degrees of Separation and the Compassionate Leader
The compassionate leaders understand that, more than ever, we are more closely connected to each other in the workplace and beyond.
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