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In Honor of Jacinda Ardern – an Experiment …

In Honor of Jacinda Ardern – an Experiment …

Yesterday Chris Hipkins was named Prime Minister of New Zealand after Jacinda Ardern had announced her resignation on Tuesday last week. Jacinda Ardern, pictured with partner Clarke Gayford and baby Neve, appeared to nurse her infant after a government press...

Seven Leadership Lessons from the Queen

Serve to lead “Serve to lead” is actually the motto of the military academy Sandhurst and sums up the Queen’s leadership style quite effectively. Neil Jurd (OBE), author of The Leadership Book and founder of skills platform LeaderConnect wrote about the Queen: “At the...
The 5 Powers of Successful Teams

The 5 Powers of Successful Teams

In his paper “The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team“, Patrick Lencioni describes the absence of 5 basics characteristics of a team making it dysfunctional.  I’d like to give it a more positive twist and look at it as 5 powers that are critical for a team to be cohesive...

What Leaders can learn from Football

With the European Football Championship coming to a close on Sunday, I was again and again reminded of what we can learn in leadership by watching football games. STATE IS EVERYTHINGIf we define state as our physiology, what we are focused on, what...

Ten Powers of an Extraordinary Leader

All of us have experienced leadership at various levels throughout our life starting directly with our parents, our teachers, our bosses and indirectly with politicians, influencers and other public figures. If we define leadership as a way to influence the thoughts,...