by leadingH01 | Jun 16, 2016 | Articles, Brain, Leadership, Personal, Team
Someone will always win – let it be you! My friend ‘Harold’ and I were yesterday discussing the critical impact that conversations have on the culture and performance of an organisation. Harold is a highly respected and experienced businessman and consultant,...
by leadingH01 | Apr 27, 2016 | Articles, Brain, Leadership, Team
I’d like to hedge a bet and say never, or at least rarely! One of the challenges of being human, is the limited capacity of our ‘thinking’ brain. Whilst it is powerful in many ways, it is also quite limited in its capacity to think though complexity. The pre-frontal...
by leadingH01 | Apr 8, 2016 | Articles, Brain, Conversations, Leadership
‘We are heading into a two-year change transformation phase’ I hear this all the time from clients. What do they really mean? They mean that things are not quite working the way they want or need, and they need to change how things are done – they need to...
by leadingH01 | Feb 22, 2016 | Articles, Leadership
I’ve been hearing and reading a lot lately about the Millennial Mindset and the need for leaders to stop avoiding and start embracing it. So who are these Millennial’s? Technically, depending on who you ask, they are a generation born post 1980 (ish), they are about...
by leadingH01 | Jan 12, 2016 | Articles, Brain
Having a theme for the year has served me well over the past few years. There is a part of your brain called the RAS (Reticular Activating System) that decides what data – from outside and inside your body – your brain will pay attention to. You need your RAS because...
by leadingH01 | Dec 15, 2015 | Articles, Leadership
There is no doubt that, as leaders, we are amazing people who know best, and by golly, aren’t our people so privileged to be the receivers of our well-intentioned advice! As humans, we don’t like being told what to do, yet we do love giving advice, and all of us have...
