Power • Influence • Impact

Early Warning: A Political Storm is Brewing

A storm of epic proportions, and likely heading in your direction. You heard it here first, and while everyone is looking elsewhere. This storm, a storm the like of which you’ve never seen before, whose ferocity will sweep you off your feet and out to sea so fast...

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Time to Stop Heeding the Experts?

Listen to them but don’t necessarily take their advice or agree with their analysis. The problem with most experts is threefold. Firstly, their skill and expertise has been built in the old world, before the big pause. What used to work may no longer work. The new...

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Hey, how ya doin’?

A time of disruption and change, and I’m curious, how are you getting on? Whatever your status in the global lockdown, one thing is sure - the end will not be distinct. It’s not going to be like a project reaching its big deliverable, or a milestone being reached. You...

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From Crisis to Paradigm Shifting

Now is a moment where the new normal will be shaped. New paradigms will be created. Today, not tomorrow. The decisions taken by leaders today will have far-reaching effects. Some of the most successful organisations will disappear as a result of their decisions today....

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The Case For Political Rivalry

Most mid-level professionals in large organisations today naively rail against the politics. They consider it harmful, a waste of time, and something perpetuated by self-serving and unscrupulous individuals. Sadly, you quite often see only what you expect to see, and...

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Being Realistic in a Crisis: Bad Move!

Client Confidential Most leaders right now will have ditched expectations of achieving their targets in 2020. Why? Because of the crisis. “The whole world has changed and what we planned is no way achievable now. As a good leader, I need to let my people know I...

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