by Mike Edwards | Feb 8, 2017 | Leadership, The Leadership Gift
I have spent a lifetime trying to prove something to the world. It’s showed itself in so many ways, from seeking attention to doing the things I believed would get me credit, to carefully tracking the hit metrics on my website. These past couple months have...
by Mike Edwards | Dec 14, 2016 | Leadership, People, The Leadership Gift
A couple weeks ago I did something I could not have imagined even a few months ago. What’s more, you will find it on my left forearm. In other words, short of wearing long sleeve shirts all the time, it’s hard to hide it. However, I don’t want to...
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 | Sep 14, 2016 | Behaviour, Leadership, People, The Leadership Gift
Freedom. I’ve talked about it a lot these past couple years, and I keep finding new levels of freedom I couldn’t have imagined having in my life. There are the obvious places in my life like being independent, being at choice about when and where I work,...
