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#leadershiptruth – It’s OK to want recognition

Posted May 7, 2019 in Latest News & Insights

Recently I read another leadership consultants social media post that said ‘leaders don’t seek recognition, they give recognition’. True, BUT as someone who has a deeply embedded wiring around a need to feel appreciated for my contributions and – dare I say – even recognized, I say, leaders may not seek recognition but it doesn’t […]

#leadershiptruth – You’re renting your position

Posted April 30, 2019 in Latest News & Insights

Once upon a time, I had a cool job with a big title and my phone was constantly ringing with people who wanted a piece of me. I had connections and a big network of impressive sounding people and lots of (what I thought were) friends. Then I quit that sexy job and everyone who […]

Mandela’s Way: Lessons on Life, Love and Courage

By: Richard Stengel and Preface by Nelson Mandela Reviewed by: Shelby Gobbo The Premise: Following a preface from Nelson Mandela, Richard Stengel, former editor of Time magazine has written a compact, yet amazing book on the life and lessons of the infamous Nelson Mandela. One of my favourite quotes from the book, “we long for […]

#leadershiptruth – Past behaviour predicts future behaviour.

Posted April 23, 2019 in Latest News & Insights

As specialists in helping leaders shift their behaviours, I can tell you that there’s a reason we get people focused on working on one big behaviour at a time: it’s REALLY HARD to change a behaviour! When Trump was running for President, I wrote an article predicting that he wouldn’t win because of his bullying […]

#leadershiptruth – Trust your gut.

Posted April 16, 2019 in Latest News & Insights

Lately, it seems that intuition is getting shortchanged in a world that values data and critical thinking. We have become so focused on trying to bulletproof our decisions by backing them up with facts and figures that we often overlook the fact that our gut (as well as our heart) can be highly instructive in […]

#leadershiptruth – A fish stinks from the head.

Posted April 9, 2019 in Latest News & Insights

I’m going to tell you a dirty little secret about how organizational culture gets created: it all starts at the top. Recently, I was chatting with one of our long-time clients and we were talking about company cultures. I was suggesting that too much time is spent by well-intentioned HR leaders on driving ‘core values’ […]