Change & Agility

Six Minutes or Six Breaths

Six Minutes to overcome your emotional reaction Many of us know what it is like to be triggered. By triggered I am referring to moments when an event or action or situation ignites our own subconscious perception of danger or risk or breaches our tightly held values. The trigger event sets off the instinctive and…

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Transformation Success Recipe

Nothing could be more important than clean water. Sanitation probably comes a close 2nd. To impact water and sanitation at scale across the developing world would be a true transformation. Transformation is one of those popular terms now that is applied to any change initiative that happens. However, the word “transformation” carries more power than…

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Resilience & Agility: The New Leadership Currency

Resilience & agility are 2 terms that are now used frequently in leadership conversations. They go together like two lions protecting the entrance to the sacred place. There reverence has arisen out of our more volatile and uncertain world. They are the requirements of the leadership dance that accompanies a highly dynamic and competitive landscape.…

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How to Transform your Business in 6 Steps

The top team, whether at global or regional level, fundamentally dictate the success of change initiatives. This team needs to attend to their own internal dynamics and processes so that they can both model and enable the transformation message across the business. Team Alignment for Business Transformation As the world becomes more and more turbulent,…

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Can We Really Change?

Lets be really honest – a fundamental shift in behavior is still quite rare. There seems a naive perspective that changing behavior can happen through an instruction, or an insight, or a 1 day training course.  And not surprisingly, this perspective often come from people who don’t change themselves but expect others to change. And…

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Adversity & Change

In a recent conversation with a leading psychologist she commented that she had met a number of people that had demonstrated a real serenity. A genuine inner calm. They all had very different cultures and backgrounds, but they did have one thing in common – they had experienced a significant hardship in their life. Some…

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