The Fulcrum - Core Insights for Emerging Leaders
Leadership Effectiveness: Five Key Practices | 
How do you use choice? The setting of life is such that any one situation can be responded to in many different ways.
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Leading Interdisciplinary Teams |
To access the subject let’s use the mobile phones industry case study. No device in modern history has had the impact on world economy in such a short span of time like the Smartphone.
The Inner Theatres of Decision-Making |
This somewhat extended Fulcrum was prompted by current events in Europe, where the quality – or lack of – decision-making processes is being acutely magnified. Decision-making is a make-it-or-break-it leadership capability and as such it is vital to be aware of the inner formations that drive our decision-making processes, some of which are highlighted in what follows. Personal Evolution: Space, the Ever-Expanding Frontier |
As we approach the New Year, here is a little ‘projection catalyst’
We exist in an ever-expanding universe, where space is being constantly created seemingly out of nothing. And space is not empty: It accommodates what science refers to as the mysterious ‘dark matter’ or energy that may hold the solution to humanity’s energy challenge. Personal Development and Europe's Leadership Crisis |
Leadership and Statesmanship
The nature of personal development that belongs with civil servants gravitates around one word: Service. Cultural Intelligence |
A little case-study of East versus West: The outwardly reactive versus the inwardly reflective There are as many variants of intelligence as there are humans alive. Each one of us with his/her unique blend of mental capabilities that determine how we bring to conscious usage what we are aware of and what we know to make a difference.Leadership Dynamics: Handling Your Max Q |
In aerospace engineering, the maximum dynamic pressure, often referred to as max Q, is the point at which aerodynamic stress on a vehicle in atmospheric flight is maximized.
Personal Development: What Is Your Struggle? |
Personal development is the enabler of self-leadership. “Those who lead themselves can lead a multitude”. What is your struggle? Life in these times is an arena of a crisis a minute; together with thrills, excitements, surprises, disappointments and challenges, often in ‘special packages’ and unknowns that are hard to predict.The Power of Ideas |
Dictionary definition of idea (Webster’s Collegiate): “a transcendent entity that is a real pattern of which existing things are imperfect representations.”; “a visible representation of a conception” Ideas drive humanity - and your business. Some ideas carry an immortal value and thus, driving power. Value, mission, vision and strategy are the pillars upon which human endeavours rise and fall. At the heart of them all live ideas that gives them life and reason. 21st Century Leadership - A Little Tribute To the Promise of German Leadership |
The German parliament recently passed an intractable vote to completely phase out nuclear energy by 2022. This courageous step may mark the most outstanding act of government level leadership in the 21st century, opening the door to unprecedented, as yet unimagined worlds of new discoveries in both the human and technological dimensions. Leadership Insights Series: Quantum Development and The Dynamics Of Influence |
Quantum physics, with all of its great mysteries, directly applies to personal development and to how we live our life. However, the only way to perceive how it translates into human process is to learn how to experience it. The Leap Factor |
"I have a better idea, said the visionary executive. Why not focus more on small, efficient cars that cater for what more and more people will be looking for, instead of this obsessive focus on gas guzzlers?" A few years later Ford is now leading the pack - it was a simple and most obvious leap factor way of thinking, and it served them very well. Investing In Your Personal Development: Much In Little |
Personal development: Some say it’s one of the least understood living sciences. Having been a practitioner, researcher and facilitator of it for three decades, I conquer. One of the key questions that concern this vital subject is: What does a person’s personal development lend itself to? Signs Of The Times: Why 'Being Prepared' Is Taking On New Meanings |
The corporate world is driven by business. What is good for business is ‘in’; what is not good for business is ‘out’. But this way of thinking is now changing, caused by emerging new realities that create head-spinning arguments; that what was once ‘bad’ for business is fast becoming indispensable; what was ‘good’ for business yesterday may make your market share disappear tomorrow. Signs Of The Times: Being Prepared To Handle The Unpredictable |
The two opposing realities and one vital leadership focus From human-caused ultra-stress to the capriciousness of nature; the world is being severely tested. The facts highlight a cold reality: On many fronts, our world is unprepared to be able to handle much of the expected and the unexpected from within the framework of its existing set-up.The Power Of Human Imagination |
 We always think out of the fields of reference that live in our brains and minds. The challenge in facing the unknown is to be able to think in such as way as to not impose irrelevant references on an event that may be originating from a different reality.
Part Two: A Snippet For Leaders and Managers |
Part one posed the question: When those whom you are leading or those whom you are about to lead or manage look you in the eye, what is the most important feeling that ought to be present
in them before all else?
A Little Snippet For Leaders And Managers: Just In Case You Forgot… |
Part One of Two
Here is a question for you: When those whom you lead or those whom you are about to lead or manage look you in the eye, what is the most important feeling that ought to be present in them before all else?
Thriving In Uncertainty By Being Your Own Person |
 We love and need certainty, don’t we? To know what to expect in returning home and walking through the front door. To know that the shelves in the super-market will continue to display an abundance of food. To know that drinkable water will flow through the tap. Much of our lives revolve around assumed certainties and securities – from relationships to oxygen in the atmosphere.
Tell a Story |
Develop your story-telling arts to become a vastly more effective individual Imagine life without stories to tell. Yes, that’s true – we can’t. Story-telling lives at the heart of humanity. The ability to think and communicate in narratives reflects the quality of our consciousness and connection to what is happening in and around us. Entering 2010 From The Future |
 Use this once in a decade opportunity to plan for your New Decade’s resolutionsLeadership Consciousness And Time |
Consciousness is a defining trait of humanity. Leadership consciousness lives in the cutting edge of it and has a crucial task: Contribute to the evolution of human consciousness by making frequent excursions into the unchartered waters of the future; to go where no man has gone before – in small and bigger ways. This is your task as a leader. The Right and Left Brains and The One Mind |
Pre-note The Two Stories: Your Inner and Outer Worlds |
Of all the subj The Cradle Of Self-Leadership |
The best way to approach the subject of self-leadership is through personal experience.
Transformational Leadership |
Pre-note: During the course of the last 12 months I have been witnessing a concerning increase in stress factors in most of those who have been attending workshops and programs that I have been facilitating. Radical change breeds uncertainty and uncertainty can be a dangerous destabilizer. It is therefore wise to re-visit our fundamentals, in such a way that makes space for the emergence of new future visions, for it is always so that much more is in our hands than we realize.
Governing Mindsets: Always Go To What Works |
Sometimes great things can be accomplished by making tiny changes and adjustments. One of those little changes concerns how we think and the mindsets that get born in us as a result of our way of life. Listening |
In every human gathering, there are the many that wait for their turn to speak and the few who listen
When is the last time that you really felt being listened to? When is the last time that someone else felt being listened to by you? Listening is quite a demanding practice, isn’t it? One of the reasons for this is that to listen, really listen, we need to create a space for the process and let nothing else interfere, which is a challenging task in a day and age that is governed by crowded agendas and over stimulated brains.
Alignment To Purpose: Do You Have One..? |
The Inner Orchestra - How Many Different Tunes Is Your Life Dancing To? If you put a pizza in a freezer all that happens is the fixed, cool protective environment will keeps it fresh for a while. A freezer is designed in such a way that nothing else will happen to the pizza - it will stay exactly what it is, ready to be consumed. Put an idea in a human mind, and it will keep changing and evolving. This is because the phenomenal range of faculties that live in a human are anything but fixed. Short And Long-Wave Thinking |
 “You become what you think about” is an aphorism of an unknown origin and one of my favourite sayings. Whoever discovered it pin-pointed a profound truth about human possibility. In fact, coming across it many years ago stopped me in my tracks – it was such a powerful realisation. Consider just how much of our behavior is in fact a product of how we think. Posture, facial expressions, the choices we make, how and what we communicate and the state of our well being are all hugely influenced by how we think.
Perception: A Leader's Bridge To Reality |
Language is a most wonderful tool – imagine life without it. It also has its many intriguing mysteries; such as how speaking or thinking about certain words can have an awakening quality. One such word is ‘perception’. You can try it right now – think ‘perception’ and say it to yourself in your own mind a few times. Can you feel the stimulating, somewhat challenging effect? It is as though the mind becomes activated in the way of "am I missing anything…?" Inner Fusion: The Nuclear Physics Of Personal Development |
When done with Aims and Targets |
Understanding the |
ects that I have been researching over the years, I find the study of the unseen worlds to be, by far, the most fascinating, demanding and challenging.
difference between aims and targets is one of the most important steps in forming successful long-term strategies. Yet, this point evades the minds of most planners and strategists, and is one of the prime reasons for the corrosive stress factors that beset so many of us. 