Future Leadership: How do we lead when they no longer work FOR us?
By Kieran Flanagan Ah the good old days when leadership resembled a tidy, symmetrical pyramid of hierarchical control. Leaders at the top with layers of obedient minions, ready to do your bidding… or...
View ArticleReframe time: You don’t have all year
By Kieran Flanagan I am pretty sure Xmas just happened and somehow it’s April. Hilarious. IT IS APRIL! Just 263 sleeps until Xmas again. Perhaps it’s time to “reframe time”. Not that I am a Griswald...
View ArticleWhat are you really selling?
By Dan Gregory Like it or not, we are all in the business of sales and selling. If you’re a leader, you’re selling your vision, your purpose and your ideas. If you’re a business person, you’re selling...
View ArticleDon’t ignore what is unchanging
By Kieran Flanagan In a world of relentless change, most leaders and organizations understand the importance of keeping up to date, but often forget the importance of looking to what will endure. What...
View ArticleYou’re on before you’re on
By Dan Gregory It doesn’t matter whether your speaking to your team, presenting to the board or giving a speech at an AGM or annual conference, you are on before you’re on and being aware of that is...
View ArticleLoyalty might just be an old fashioned ideal
By Kieran Flanagan “Surely not,” you say! Well, hear me out. Staff loyalty was once the ultimate measure of a leader. When a leader was great people stuck around. They progressed through the company....
View ArticleHow to move from story telling to “story-doing”
by Dan Gregory It’s hard to argue against the power story telling wields as a tool of influence and persuasion. However, a more powerful tool is Story Doing. Indeed, story telling is one of the oldest...
View ArticleResilience is no longer enough
By Kieran Flanagan Resilience has become the word of the moment. How many times have you heard this conversation? We’re facing a lot of change. We really need our people to be more resilient....
View ArticleNeed to versus want to
by Dan Gregory One of the things that has human beings turning to motivational literature in their multitudes is the difference between “Need to” and “Want to”. Typically, want to doesn’t require a lot...
View ArticleWhen the facts get in the way of our opinions
By Dan Gregory How do we know something is, in fact, a fact, or even THE facts, or just an opinion we’ve held so long we’re unprepared to give it up? Just as importantly, are those we look to engage...
View ArticleIs Self-Help making you feel worse?
By Dan Gregory & Kieran Flanagan Originally published with SUCCESS Isn’t personal development or self-help meant to inspire us so that we can make our lives better? It’s supposed to motivate us,...
View ArticleRethinking the S.W.O.T. Analysis
BY Dan Gregory & Kieran Flanagan Originally published with The CEO Magazine Anyone who’s sat through a strategic workshop at anytime during the past decade will be familiar with the SWOT analysis....
View Article7 ways to lead people that don’t want to be led
Stop obsessing over how things get done. Worry more about what gets done. BY Dan Gregory & Kieran Flanagan Originally published with SUCCESS Leadership used to be a top-down, pyramid-style...
View ArticleWhy an enemy can be good for business
by Dan Gregory & Kieran Flanagan Originally published with The CEO Magazine http://blogs.the-ceo-magazine.com/danandkieran/why-enemy-good-business The self-help industry and the associated cult of...
View ArticleGen Ys and Millennials: ‘They Might Be Right’
by Dan Gregory & Kieran Flanagan Originally published with SUCCESS http://www.success.com/article/gen-ys-and-millennials-they-might-be-right The Gen Y and millennial generations have been harshly...
View ArticleWhy leaders need to think Selfish, Scared & Stupid
By Dan Gregory & Kieran Flanagan Originally published by CEO Magazine http://blogs.the-ceo-magazine.com/guest/why-leaders-need-think-selfish-scared-stupid Today leaders are largely defined by two...
View ArticleSwim with the current
One of the advantages of growing up on a huge island in the South Pacific – Terra Australis – is that you learn to be a little more ocean savvy than much of the rest of the world. Swimming in the ocean...
View ArticleWhy mental flexibility beats mental toughness
Leaders and management consultants often try to invoke a spirit of mental toughness in their employees and audiences. And certainly, a measure of persistence and resilience is a good thing and...
View ArticleStart with WIIFM?
Simon Sinek’s “Start with Why” is an extraordinary book that explores how meaning and purpose can drive human beings to lift their game and amplify buy in well beyond simple incentive based motivation....
View ArticleDesign Beats Discipline
Too often in our attempts to drive change in our organisations, our selves or our communities, or in an attempt to lift the performance of our teams, we tend to resort to things like discipline and...
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