How to Create a Strategic Plan
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Professor Richard Holme’s 10 Diseases of Leadership
Professor Richard Holmes identified ten diseases of leadership. These are common bad behaviours that leaders can slip into. The good news is that if you’re self-aware, these issues can easily be corrected with some minor adjustments in behaviour. However, if left unchecked, they can cause significant damage in the long-term. Leadership disease #1: Lack of…
Stop Plan and Implement – Start Experiment and Learn
I have been taught that in order to achieve something you have to have a clear goal and a plan to get from A to B. This has worked for the majority of goals I have set over the course of my life. It was the approach I used when I applied to join the Corps and the one I used to plan my career. But I am starting to challenge this assumption based on recent events and what I have learnt over the past couple of years.
Are you Sharpening the Axe?
‘Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe’ Abraham Lincoln There are broadly speaking two types of activity that we spend time focussing on. There are the things that you need to do in order to get the job done today. At work, these…
