The Case for Conscious Organisations: The Time is Now
The world has reached a crisis point. We are confronted with study after study describing the looming catastrophe of our inaction on climate change. Resignations continue to hit all major industries as people search for ways to spend their lives meaningfully,...
What is the Next Generation of Performance Metrics?
“What would it take for all of your employees, from the top to the bottom, to believe that they aren’t just working in the economy of money but also in the economy of meaning?” – Wahl As we continue to...
How to Optimise Our Harmonious Passion at Work
Bring your life – to life “Passion is the absolute unity of individual character and the universal.” Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel When famous philosopher Hegel (1770–1831) wrote about passion, he argued that nothing great in the world had been accomplished without...
Seizing Our Regenerative Agency
Seizing Our Regenerative Agency As we live through Industry 5.0 — described as resilient, human-centered, and sustainable — and move towards the AI revolution of Industry 6.0, we are being called to deepen our commitment to a more regenerative way of living and working...
Is Versatile Leadership Wise Leadership?
Leadership today is exacting. Whichever management book or article you read, the skill sets required to succeed, seem endless. Mantles such as service, adaptive, agile, transformational, horizontal, regenerative, creative, and vertical leadership are just a few of an exhausting list,...
Versatility in Leadership: The Balance Between Adaptation and Overload
How to stay everything for everyone We’ve been talking a lot with our clients about versatility in leadership. Rather than ascribing to static ways of leading or being in the workplace, a focus on versatile leadership acknowledges that our approach often...
From Adaptation to Innovation: The Power of Ambidexterity and Radical Optionality
Ambidexterity Ambidextrous organisations (meaning: efficient today while adapting to tomorrow’s demands) are identified by their ability to exploit existing competencies as well as explore new opportunities, with equal skill. Generally speaking, their ambidexterity is intentionally activated by a vision and a...
Unlocking Strategic Networking
“Networking” can get a bad rap in the workplace. But humans have been connecting across groups, societies and cultures for as long as it’s been possible to do so. Networking with others is not just about finding that next job...
Influencing Up
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” Dr Stephen Covey. We know from many studies that the key to our enjoyment of work is the sense that we are being listened to,...
Amping Up Team Alignment
When we hear the words team alignment, our minds are liable to jump to an image of a group of people nodding away in agreement, smiles marking their faces and cohesion sparkling in their eyes. But this image can lead...