The job of a CEO is never easy, but it’s even harder while navigating through a global pandemic. Your make-or-break decisions are impossible without all the skills, diverse perspectives and available data. You probably receive no shortage of advice from your staff, friends and even your spouse, but it might not be the best guidance […]
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How Can Diversity Lead To Innovation?
Diversity is innovative potential. To activate this potential, leaders must understand the underlying process through which diversity leads to innovation. One early requirement is to loosen traditional views of leadership based in command and control. This creates mental space to consider an organization as an ecology of innovation. An ecology is a system of difference. […]
Why the ‘paradox mindset’ is the key to success
Although paradoxes often trip us up, embracing contradictory ideas may actually be the secret to creativity and leadership. Working life often involves the push and pull of various contradictory demands. Doctors and nurses need to provide highest quality healthcare at the lowest cost; musicians want to maintain their artistic integrity while also making a sack […]
What is takes to be a great leader
The world is full of leadership programs, but the best way to learn how to lead might be right under your nose. In this clear, candid talk, Roselinde Torres describes 25 years observing truly great leaders at work, and shares the three simple but crucial questions would-be company chiefs need to ask to thrive in […]
Why Emotional Intelligence Needs Cultural Intelligence When Working Across Borders
To succeed globally, we need both Emotional Intelligence and Cultural Intelligence. We’ve all heard about how EQ—Emotional Intelligence—is vital for success as a leader. The ability to be aware of our emotional state and the emotional states of others and incorporate that awareness into our actions and decisions is what accounts for 90% of the […]
Biggest Test of Having Lived a Successful Life
It’s the most obvious solution to our current problems in business and society. Berkshire Hathaway chairman and CEO Warren Buffett, the greatest investor of our generation, is also a champion of personal development who has shared a surplus of advice to help us live a good life. One of Buffett’s most famous nuggets of pure unadulterated wisdom is key to personal success. Not only […]