How to Look After Your Leader 2: Listen and Learn
We’re constantly surrounded by voices. The culture we swim in influences us through an endless stream of messages. And each of us is a leader with our own distinct voice. It takes practice to turn the volume down on all…
How to Look After Your Leader 1: What, Why?
Leaders take responsibility. Responsibilities are lining up for you to love them every day; some invited, some that just crash in anyway. Some days you love them completely, it’s awe-inspiring and rewarding. Other times the pressure has you scanning for the…
Self Awareness is Not Knowing Yourself
Self awareness is not knowing what you are like. It’s not being able to tell the story of who you are, who you think you are, a story you can tell again. Self awareness isn’t an answer. It’s a line of…
Leadership is the Practice of Discerning What is Useful and What is Beautiful
Leadership is the practice of discerning what is useful and what is beautiful… and curating accordingly. I was fifteen when I learned of Victorian poet and designer William Morris’s view that you should, …have nothing in your houses that you…