Are We Victims of Our Current Business Model?
The Current Business Model Makes Us Powerless — Does It Need To Be This Way? Powerless, how? The most common ways of leading companies today is to take care of some people and not others. In face of economic threats, most leaders react with layoffs as if they are the only available strategy — and most of
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Manage the crisis or lead people through the crisis
Premise I am writing this blog during the corona virus pandemic. Governments around the world are struggling to lead the efforts of supporting their citizens in both staying safe and treating those that are infected, while most businesses are ducking their heads in the sand to protect the troves of profits they made since the
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Problems = Unmet Needs
Why doesn’t anyone teach us that problems are unmet needs? What Are We Taught to Do? We are socialized to see problems as bad or things to solve asap. This makes us either avoid problems or say things such as “Don’t bring me problems, bring me solutions!”. This also makes us a bit scared
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Intention Vs Action
Have you ever wondered how Human-Centric Leading can expose intention vs action? Background One of the projects we worked on was with an organization that prides itself on treating its employees. Leadership takes their needs first. Benefits provided were above average. Some of which were comfortable office settings, food provided, events to tend to their
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Why We Use CJB (Criticism, Judgement and Blame)
We’ve been socialized to use CJB (criticisms, judgement, blame). As change-makers, we must learn to transform CJB in order to avoid taking things personally and absorbing negative energy, as well as identifying the most important core issues that lie underneath the CJB.
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