Values at Core of Leadership
The Moral Maze of Decision-Making
In some form or other, ethical trade-offs or a moral maze are inherent to most businesses of some scale, and the value judgments we make in resolving them are a signature of leadership.
Why is it that companies make bad decisions?
It’s not the one off impulsive decisions that interest me, but why, given all the checks and balances, so many companies appear to make carefully thought-through decisions that actively harm the interests of their stakeholders.
Navigating the Middle Ground
For the last few weeks, we’ve been bombarded with advice on how to make the best use of this period of lockdown. The internet is awash with potted wisdom on how to be more organized, distracted, or upgraded, while my inbox has personalized suggestions ranging from cleaning up the sock drawer to learning a new…
Exploring the Tenets of Servant Leadership Interview
Overview: During a conversation with Jos Opdeweegh, a distinguished CEO based in Miami, the concept of Servant Leadership came to the forefront as a paradigm-shifting approach to organizational management. Opdeweegh provided illuminating insights into the limitations inherent in the conventional top-down leadership model, where decision-making authority is confined to a select cadre of executives, often…
Models of Creativity: Analysis or Creativity-Fellows or Foes?
All of this is intended to get us to think about how we apply similar thinking to our organizations. What, as business leaders, can we do to foster the relationships and environment that supports the creative progress we need?
Relative values – and the Barbenheimer phenomenon.
You’d have to have been in a cultural wilderness this last month not to be aware that the two most talked about films of this summer are almost diametrically opposed in their style and substance. That said, the simultaneous release of Barbie and Oppenheimer is arguably a marketing masterstroke, generating thousands of column inches and…
Giving to Ourselves and Others
The face looking at me from the newspaper is perhaps six years old. It’s a young boy in a makeshift tent, mud on his cheeks, hands clasped as if in prayer. The caption tells me he’s lost his home and that winter may take his life. I think it’s his eyes that move me most,…
Fear and the Price Tag of Trust
As a young boy growing up in Peer, it was natural I’d want to learn to ride a bike. For though Belgium is not awash with heroes, we had all heard of Eddy Merckx, widely regarded as the world’s greatest cyclist.
The problem, at least at first, was that I wasn’t very good. No…
The building of Cathedrals: What it can teach us
As a young boy, I was awestruck by the efforts that must have gone into constructing these monuments. At a time when most people couldn’t read, when harvest yields meant life or death when medicine was little more than superstition… here were our forefathers, building these intricate structures with the most basic of tools. How…
Blending Talent for the Future
Originally Published in Fair Value Last Autumn, I gave an interview and later wrote about the importance of developing talent in organizations. My claim was that by creating opportunities for people to grow, we reap the reward of their unique and valuable contributions to our overall goal. That much, I said, is mainstream progressive thinking-so,…
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