The Messy Middle: Why Influential Leaders SCAN Before They Push Harder
Publication: Change Leadership | change management | Organisational Change | Situational Awareness
Some concepts stay with you because they keep proving themselves to be true. For me, that applies to Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s observation that everything can look like a failure in the middle1. I first heard her talk about this concept many years ago, and it makes perfect sense. Beginnings carry energy. There’s excitement, momentum […]
Do you really know what’s going on?
Publication: Active Listening | Curious Leadership | Organisational Insight | Situational Awareness
Admiral Horatio Nelson is considered one of Britain’s best naval commanders, with a long and distinguished career culminating in the country’s decisive victory over Napoleon that ended the threat of a French invasion. In 1801, he was appointed second in command to admiral, Sir Hyde Parker. This appointment was at the time of the French Napoleonic […]