Leadership

Regenerative Teams: Rhythm and Reach

Few interpersonal relationships are more important to organisations than the dynamics of teams. It’s uncontroversial then to say that getting them right should be a priority.   On the one hand, the look of teams has changed irreparably in recent...
Marcus de Courtenay & Nikki Brown
Culture, Innovation, Leadership, Learning and Development, Strategy, Teams

Amplifying Voices: Optimal Feedback Loops

A San Francisco-based executive consultant recounts a conversation he overheard about Steve Jobs’ feedback style while at Pixar. Jobs would point to a person in a meeting and ask, “Tell me what’s not working at Pixar.” He would continue to...
Marcus de Courtenay
Culture, Innovation, Insights, Leadership, Learning and Development, Strategy, Teams

Headwinds and Tailwinds

If you’re serious about diversity and inclusion, pay attention to the winds. Many of us have experienced exclusion at some point in our lives – a time we felt the acute pain of being overlooked, underestimated, or belittled. If we’re...
Dr. Natasha Budd
Culture, Insights, Leadership, Learning and Development, Strategy, Teams

The Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Shift is a Learning Shift

The case for diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) in organisations has been made extensively. To start, in our practice at Performance Frontiers we see it as the right thing to do on a human level. We are also seeing that...
Laura Clemesha & Marcus de Courtenay
Culture, Insights, Leadership, Teams

What If Your Boss Was A Computer?

Depending on who you speak to, you might receive any number of predictions for the future of work. Lists, prophecies, and projections abound. However, one universal feature we see amongst them is the impact of advancing artificial intelligence and automation.  ...
Marcus de Courtenay & Dr. Chris Rowell
Culture, Innovation, Insights, Leadership, Learning and Development, Strategy, Teams

Regenerative Leader Mindsets

What can you do to become a Regenerative Leader? Nature has been practicing the art of regeneration for eons.  Salamanders and newts can re-grow their limbs, tail, jaw, and retina. A scorpion replenishes its venom reservoir with a different composition...
Gretel Bakker & Dr. Marianne de Pierres
Culture, Innovation, Insights, Leadership, Learning and Development, Strategy, Teams

Leading Through Ambiguity

Are you climbing the ladder, spinning your wheels, or up the creek without a paddle? The use of simple analogies in business is widespread. They help us quickly grasp and communicate feelings, concepts, and processes because we all ‘get it’...
Dr. Chris Rowell
Culture, Innovation, Insights, Leadership, Learning and Development, Strategy, Teams

The Power of a Kindness Ecosystem

The power of kindness to bring us joy is a tale as old as time. The Buddha teaches:   “If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.”  What we have come to know as well is that kindness propagates. In 2015, Kathy Hart...
Marcus de Courtenay
Culture, Insights, Leadership, Learning and Development, Teams

Reading Between the Lines | Ask vs. Guess Culture at Work

Are you a Guesser or an Asker? It’s still a conversation topic over a decade after the question was first posed back in 2007 by writer, Andrea Donderi. Since then, this somewhat polarising cultural observation has found some legitimising status...
Dr. Marianne de Pierres
Culture, Insights, Leadership, Learning and Development, Teams