by Mike Edwards | Dec 21, 2016 | Behaviour, Leadership, People
As 2017 will soon be here, I find myself reflecting on 2016, and what has changed in my life. For this past year, I’ve been in the CTI Leadership program, and I find myself looking at life, love and time very differently than I did a year ago. Much of it is hard...
by Mike Edwards | Dec 9, 2016 | Behaviour, Change, Leadership, The Leadership Gift
Command and control. Directive. Autocratic. Stretch goals. Call it what you will, lately, I’ve been more closely observing the impact of leaders using such approaches with the people they lead. All of these things amount to pushing the people you lead and...
by Mike Edwards | Dec 1, 2016 | Behaviour, Change, Leadership, The Leadership Gift
Einstein said “insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result”. If this is true, then I must be insane at times. I also wonder given this definition, how many others around me are insane given I see leaders leading...
by Mike Edwards | Nov 24, 2016 | Agile, Behaviour, Change, Leadership, The Leadership Gift
I work with people and organisations who want to change and I hear it all the time: “That’s nice in theory, but it’s not possible to do that here because <insert good excuse here>.” Or something like “There’s no way I could do <insert scary personal task...
by Mike Edwards | Nov 18, 2016 | Agile, Behaviour, Change, Leadership
Where am I going? What lays ahead for me on this journey I’m on? What if I go the wrong way? How can I get there quicker? These are the types of questions I’ve been asking myself for a very long time. They’re all about some imaginary destination, I...
by Mike Edwards | Nov 2, 2016 | Behaviour, People
Recently, I had a rich conversation with a friend about our relationship. For the longest time, I would describe our relationship as cordial and guarded. It’s hard to explain what was really happening, however, imagine there being a wall between us. Neither one...
