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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…
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…
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. …
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…
We are in the second of the two great work transitions brought on by the pandemic. The first: a mass movement to work from home. The second: a negotiated return to an elusive hybrid work balance. One thing is clear…
An iconic moment in Superman: The Movie still resonates decades after the film’s release in 1978. Lois Lane, dangling precariously from a helicopter, suddenly loses her grip. As she plummets earthward down the side of a skyscraper, Superman miraculously swoops…
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’…
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…
We are living in an Age of Affinity and when it comes to work, people are attracted to organisations and teams that share their purpose and values. For leaders, one implication of this is the importance of finding the right…
Have you ever had a cryptic conversation with a close friend? The kind where you only need a few keywords and phrases for them to understand you? The kind that anyone else you know would have trouble deciphering? That quick…
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…
During the pandemic, some leaders have found themselves in situations that have seen their teams depleted of people to perform important roles, due to the impact of lockdowns or other Covid related events. This kind of global disruption is a timely reminder of the importance of understanding the critical nodes within our workflow and of constantly building resilience into our whole system through methods such as succession planning.
