Twenty Seven client or programme projects on my plate at the Centre for Innovative Leadership. Number 28, Strategic Thinking for Leaders finished yesterday with some great work around some significant strategic issues on participant organisations.
Of course they were significant. Otherwise they wouldn’t be strategic would they?
Realising the 27 helped me last night understand the dull tiredness around my eyes and accept that there Continue reading “Strategic thinking for small things”
A teenager died in the weekend after attending the King’s College Winter Ball. Much has and will be said about this tragedy, but three things said by leaders from King’s caught my eye: We can’t babysit the students 24 hours a day. True. We don’t need an inquiry to see how the Balls are run. Mmmm. They weren’t drunk and there were no drugs. Right.
A letter to the editor in one of the Sunday newspapers caught my eye too. The writer, a mother from Masterton, said that she didn’t try to be friends with her children when they were growing up, that she saw her parenting role to role-model behaviours that she wanted to instil into her children. Continue reading “Not our fault”
Do you smile? I mean really smile. Well that’s probably the wrong question. It’s a question about being happy in your leadership.
If you are then you’ll smile. That’s contagious and the team will notice and it’ll pass around like a virus. I’ve very rarely got bad service or not have a problem solved when I’ve got a smile.
Not a fake one, but one that comes because of what’s going on inside.
So smile this Monday for leadership. If you can’t then we’ll keep working on it. Come back here soon!
I’m role-modelling with some new headers on this blog that change when you refresh.
Stephen
ps It’s Mum at her 80th in April with her siblings and spouses.
I try to go the movies a couple of times a week. It’s Sunday, which is a great movie day, so here’s a listing of some of the movies I’ve seen this year (I know there’s more but this is a start) with links to blog entries where I’ve mentioned the particular movie.
Why? I felt like it! And they influence my thinking, and hence my blogs.
Stephen
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