No matter your business or your position, you can apply his approach to create a workplace where everyone takes responsibility for their actions, people are healthier and happier – and everyone is a leader.
Posted 5 years ago Tagged Gap between head of tree and trunk Leadership Dieback Organisational Deiback The head of a tree dying Tree Dieback Leadership
What does Tree Dieback have to do with leadership? Nature instinctively knows what to do to ensure the survival of a species, but we homo sapiens can make things much more complicated than they might otherwise be. Biases, blind spots and clinging to the status quo block our progress. Being aware of this is the first step.
Posted 5 years ago Tagged Creativity Curiosity Pandora Hope Elpis
Curiosity is essential, but… Preschool children ask an average of 100 questions per day, but shamefully, by middle school, they all but stop asking questions. In a world of abundant data and information, asking the right question is an invaluable skill. The answer can be found easily, coming up with the right question is much more difficult.
Posted 5 years ago Tagged Aidan McCullen Aidan McCullen Innovation Aidan McCullen Undisruptable Dr. Howard Thurman quote Prometheus Fire Prometheus Punishment Eagle Sometimes you are unsatisfied with your life Ben Carson Sometimes you are unsatisfied with your life quote Sometimes you are unsatisfied with your life Wasted potential
Prometheus risked everything to give us a spark, a fire within. Therefore, it is our responsibility to kindle that spark, to keep it alive and to nurture it on to future generations. We are all born with a spark, however small and however clouded by circumstance. Many of us all our spark to fizzle as we grown older or allow others to extinguish or douse our inner flames. While we will not suffer torture like Prometheus did, not embracing our spark can result in mental torture throughout our existence.
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With Time Smart, Ashley Whillans offers us a playbook for taking back the time you lose to mindless tasks and unfulfilling chores.
Posted 5 years ago Tagged Chaos and Order Aidan McCullen Sandro Botticelli The Birth of Venus Ugly precedes beauty Venus Beauty from Ugliness
We were all impacted in various ways in 2020, but just as bruises result in scar tissue, which is thicker than normal tissue, setbacks can result in resilience if we change how we perceive them. C.S. Lewis puts it beautifully, “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”
Posted 5 years ago Tagged BJ Fogg BJ Fogg Stanford Business Entrepreneurship Innovation Leadership Technology Tiny Habits
Our guest is here to say: It isn’t your fault. creating positive change isn’t as hard as you think and when it comes to change tiny is mighty. We welcome, founder of the Behavior Design Lab at Stanford University and author Tiny Habits, BJ Fogg.
Posted 5 years ago Tagged Aidan McCullen Blog Business Entrepreneurship Innovation John Rogers Leadership Order and Chaos Pentagon Plagues precede Renaissance RL Leaders The Renaissance Campaign: A Problem-Solving Formula
When we are experiencing chaos, it can be all encompassing, we can forget that there is order ahead. Our guest on Innovation Show 253 is John Rogers, John reminds us that the devastation of the “Black Death” was the chaos that preceded the Renaissance.
Posted 5 years ago Tagged "When you change the way you look at things Bird vision Human Vision The Eyes of the Beholder Innovation The human retina has three kinds of receptors used for colour vision the things you look at change." Max Planck
If we learned anything in 2020, perhaps it is that we are stronger together. Collaboration can bring us vaccines in record time. This mindset cannot be just a flash in the pan, if that is the case the pan will not be around for much longer. In a world of complex challenges, we need to venture beyond our swim lanes and explore the entire pool.
Posted 5 years ago Tagged Business Entrepreneurship Innovation John Rogers Leadership Pentagon RL Leaders The Renaissance Campaign: A Problem-Solving Formula
Organizations and individuals need to adopt an entirely different approach to the biggest challenges they face and embrace a new model to ensure they emerge triumphant. That model is The Renaissance Campaign.