Leading from awareness creates the conditions for transformation, as we shift from auto-pilot to consciousness.
A uniquely African approach proves a cure for post-merger, acquisition dysfunction. Originally published in the Business Day Management Review, Monday, 23 April 2007
Craig Yeatman recently spoke on Leading your Organisation to Success in an Evolving African Market at the GSM 3G AfricaCom conference in November 2007. Read the speaker notes of this presentation...
Asking leaders in an organization to become coaches puts them at the heart of developing others. However, combining coaching with daily leadership and management poses a number of challenges.
Group dynamics and relationships are critical at leadership team level – attention to these dynamics and building team competencies are essential for any leadership team to engage effectively on transforming the organization and grappling with complex issues.
If you believe in transformational leadership and want strategy that copes with rapid change, scenarios should be part of your toolbox.
Mentoring as a business tool can deliver increased return on investment when organisations understand and support the fundamentals of mentoring relationships.
Current leadership literature distinguishes transformational and transactional leadership styles – how do these types of leaders lead change?
The time of waiting for instructions or direction to flow from the management team before acting is a thing of the past. As the economy and our global environment changes, the company’s ability to succeed relies more and more on the strength and leadership capability of the individuals within the organisation.
Leadership development is a lifelong journey that commits to growing all aspects of the leader’s being: the intellectual knowledge in our heads, emotional competence and values in our hearts, and behavioural skills and competencies in our hands. The choice to embark on this journey raises complex challenges and often offers more questions than answers.
Without vision, we are blind – and without a vision, an organisation is liable to be stumbling around, lost in the blizzard. As champions of vision, leaders use this powerful tool to lead their communities through the challenges of the environment, and create the space for empowered action by the organisational community.
Innovative leaders learn new insights into how organisations adapt and grow in chaotic environments from research into living systems. Learn about leading in times of rapid change...
Leaders shape the world through the conversations they engage in, and organisations move forward one meaningful conversation at a time.