Beyond the Single Cause: Why Influential Leaders Embrace Complexity
Publication: Critical Thinking | Embracing Complexity | Influential Leaders | Overcoming bias
You’re in the middle of a crisis or confronting a complex issue. What do you do? Go for the quick solution, or take the time to solve the underlying problem? Many leaders feel pressure to act swiftly, identify the problem, and offer a clear solution in moments of crisis or complexity. Stakeholders demand explanations, while […]
Where do you source your best ideas?
Publication: Collaboration Insights | Creativity Practices | Critical Thinking
Sometimes ideas come quickly, and other times they can seem harder to find. Sometimes it can feel like there are too many ideas, and other times, not enough. At other times, ideas can feel like they have escaped you. In her book, Big Magic, writer, Elizabeth Gilbert, characterises ideas as having ‘consciousness’ and ‘will’. To her, […]
What do you really know?
Publication: Continuous learning | Critical Thinking | Intellectual Curiosity
Recently, I read Jess Hill’s confronting and compelling book, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse. She recounts analysis which dismantles the concept of Stockholm Syndrome. I’m sure you’ve heard of it; perhaps like me, even used the term. If you haven’t, it was invented in 1973 by a psychiatrist, following a […]
Why we need to say the Emperor has no clothes
Publication: Challenge Status Quo | Critical Thinking | Herd Mentality | Leadership Courage
You may remember from your childhood the Hans Christian-Anderson fairy tale titled – The Emperor Has No Clothes. The story centred on two conmen who pretended to be weavers and convinced the Emperor they could make him a magical suit – the finest in the land. The magic was that this suit would be invisible to […]
Why the question is one of your most powerful tools
Publication: Critical Thinking | Curious questioning | Information Literacy | Questioning Skills
According to reports we are now living in a post-fact world. A world where experts are devalued and comments and opinions can be positioned without question, even if they have no substance or evidence to back them up. This is most commonly playing out in the political arena where politicians make sweeping generalisations, bend the […]