9 Ways to Deal With Project Diversions — and Do Your Best Work
By any measure, we spend about half of our time thinking about something other than what we’re supposed to be doing. At work, this can be especially lethal to our projects and, along with them, our job satisfaction and success. Yet few people understand the degree to which routine diversions impact our performance. In fact, […]
Couple Inspires First Plastic Diaper Ban
As Kim and Jason Graham-Nye were anticipating the arrival of their first child, they discovered that conventional disposable diapers/nappies are the third largest contributors to landfills in the world and that one single disposable diaper takes 500 years to biodegrade. These were the revelations that completely redirected their careers purpose. After their son was born, […]
A Better Way to Lead: Paul Polman’s Lessons For Our Future
When Paul Polman resigned as CEO of British-Dutch consumer goods company Unilever last year, he left behind a decade of innovation and a global company with more than 400 brands, housed in a $140 billion company. He also left behind inspiration for our future, a visionary roadmap for consumers and CEOs alike. His long-term strategy […]
Five Steps to Create the Organization of the Future
We are in the Fourth Industrial Revolution—an age of AI, machine learning, robotics, blockchains, and IoT. It is a new era requiring new strategies to remain competitive. Old ways of leading organizations will no longer work. We need Leadership 2.0. If you don’t believe this, look at what is happening to big-box retailers and incumbent […]
Why Leaders Need to “Go Organic” in Their Communications
In many organizations, the amount of attention given to anything new coming from the CEOs office is inversely proportional to how much employees hear the same old acronyms, jargon, esoteric terms and cliched aspirational language. For example, consider the verb “strive,” which practically no one uses in day-to-day conversation. In reality, low-hype, high-substance communication using […]
5 Ways to Transform Investment Risk Into Reward
In the 2018 documentary Free Solo, professional rock climber Alex Honnold does something you wouldn’t expect. He gets his brain scanned. Neuroscientists wanted to learn why he didn’t fear his upcoming quest: an immensely dangerous, 3,000-foot free solo climb of El Capitan, Yosemite National Park’s famed granite monolith. The result? It turns out Honnold is completely […]
6 Internal Communication Challenges That Kill Your Company’s Productivity
The way we communicate with each other has changed. In some ways, it’s more convenient. In other ways, it’s holding us back. Communication is vital to your company’s productivity, and effective internal communication can make or break your business. If done well, it will bring great results. If done poorly, it will leave your employees […]
How Your Values Can be Turned Into Profit
I own a for-profit, B Corp-accredited strategic design and innovation consultancy. We are values-led and work with clients through the lens of ‘meaningful work’. It all sounds very fluffy doesn’t it? I’m often asked by leaders of organizations how values create value. What values and purpose have to do with the bottom line and how […]
The World’s Top 50 Keynote Speakers Who Inspire us to Become Better Leaders
Whether you lead a Fortune 500 company or simply want to motivate yourself to rise to the next level, you can learn many lessons from the world’s top keynote speakers. These key messages from highly accomplished men and women across a broad spectrum of business, athletic and entertainment sectors will give you and your colleagues […]
The 5 Benefits of Increasing Your Corporate Social Responsibility
As social and environmental causes become more mainstream, people want to feel like they’re making a difference in the world. Forty+ hour work weeks can make social responsibility and charitable efforts challenging to squeeze in, however, if this is built into company culture, it makes being socially or environmentally responsible much easier. By integrating social […]
