One step back, two steps up.
Imagine a typical organisational hierarchy. A boss is harassing the department head who’s bugging the manager who’s checking on the supervisor who’s watching the worker… and everyone’s watching their...
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Thoughts on leadership
I once worked in an organisation where the boss was the scariest man around, his “jokes” were like grenades and you hoped not to be in the area when he unleashed one … but the business seemed to hum....
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Who da boss?
With so much talk about leadership these days, it’s amazing that almost no-one has bothered to define what the hell they mean by ‘leader’. Which might explain why just about anyone who has climbed the...
View ArticleWhat do you really need in a leader?
What would it take for you to stop whatever you’re doing and follow someone, no matter where they were going? Must they be great orators? Gifted speakers have a huge advantage in attracting followers...
View ArticleLeadership at 30,000 ft
‘Do we have a doctor on this flight?’ Heads turned and necks craned as everyone on Flight 481 wondered the same thing: Who’s unlucky enough to need a doctor way up here and are they just lucky enough...
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Rude operator.
I love this photo; it shows US Supreme Court Associate Justice Abraham Fortas getting what political historians call ‘The Johnson Treatment.’ US Presidents are almost always shown deep in thought...
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Don’t trust the escalator.
I struggle to stay engaged in news from the Middle East; the region is always at flashpoint, tensions are always high and its ‘leaders’ seem determined to escalate every crisis into a catastrophe....
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What do we want?
This is the Cookie Monster. He wants cookies and he wants them now; he’s so fixated on eating all the cookies there’s simply no other thought in his furry blue head. He cares not for the needs of...
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Time to act.
Problems reveal themselves over time. At first you struggle to fathom what’s going on; there may be multiple signs of danger but you’re unlikely to understand what they’re trying to tell you. The good...
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