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 10, 2016 | Change, People
Yesterday morning I woke up at about 2:45am. It doesn’t happen often, and when it does I can usually get back to sleep at least for a short while. However, in this case, I felt a kind of heaviness in the air. It was odd, as usually I only hear quiet of the...
by Mike Edwards | Aug 24, 2016 | Behaviour, Change, Leadership, The Leadership Gift
My posts more recently have been based on my experiences of my personal journey. Thank you for the generous feedback, and I have to say the vulnerability and sharing have helped me too. I began to think this week you might be wondering what happened to my focus on...
