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Matthew Farmer
November 14, 2023 2:12 AM
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Leadership development spending has lagged, forcing companies to lose key managers and leaders at an unprecedented rate. It’s easy to write off leadership development and say it’s just a “nice to have.” Well that’s simply not true. If you don’t talk about leadership, bring leaders together, and set in place a set of behaviors, values, and skills for your leaders, the company sits on shifting sand. As one of our analysts put it to me years ago, when things get bad the only thing you have left is the leadership culture. And if you haven’t been taking care of it, well, you just drift. I’m not saying leadership development is easy. It’s actually quite tricky, in fact. There are thousands of books, courses, and vendors selling you models, tools, and content. And most of them have lots of good research underpinnings. What really matters is not just “buying one,” but rather looking at them and deciding what models and values work for you.'
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Matthew Farmer
August 22, 2023 2:49 AM
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Stories are the most powerful tool we have for increasing understanding and building engagement with complex issues. Telling them well can drive belief and behaviour change. This article outlines 4 things to focus on to tell more engaging and influential stories about complex issues that actually move people. 1. Tell stories about individuals 2. Give your audience two plus two 3. Be strategic with your empty spaces 4. Paint a picture in the mind of your audience
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Matthew Farmer
January 24, 2023 2:02 AM
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This chart plots polarization for various countries based on the Edelman Trust Institute's annual survey of 32,000+ people.
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Doreen Wanja Mutero
November 10, 2022 9:31 AM
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Our leadership models are changing – from command and control to questioning and discovery. You can learn to develop these skills and improve your capability as a leader. How do you sustain your competitive advantage... Read more »
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Sally Brownbill
September 21, 2022 8:00 AM
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When empath first entered the English lexicon, it was anything but a compliment. The term was coined in a 1956 science-fiction story about unnaturally empathetic beings that are used to exploit workers. But the word has since taken on more positive connotations and today might even be worth putting on your résumé as a mark of leadership. Some argue that leaders should exhibit more empathy to help burned-out workers after the worst of COVID-19. The reporter Charlotte Alter dubbed Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign an “empathy offensive,” and if election results are any guide, the strategy paid off.
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Sally Brownbill
July 27, 2022 9:58 AM
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The Pandemic has changed the Leadership Development landscape forever, but are corporate leaders ready to accept the new realities?
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Doreen Wanja Mutero
June 27, 2022 7:53 AM
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Today's most effective leaders have transitioned from a 'problem-solver,' to a 'problem-sensemaker.' Have you?
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Sally Brownbill
May 25, 2022 10:05 AM
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Our research shows that in challenging times, empathy can be particularly essential. Learn how your organization can benefit from it.
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Sally Brownbill
May 16, 2022 11:48 AM
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Appearing on The Leaders Council Podcast, entrepreneur Matthew Farmer shares the story of how a volunteering experience back in 2001 culminated in a chain of events that would lead him to establish his own business, Emerging World, two years later.
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Matthew Farmer
February 8, 2022 1:53 AM
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The VUCA acronym seemed to hit the nail on the head in describing the nature of the world we live in. 'But no more'!' argues Stephan Grabmeier. He proposes that we adopt a different way of seeing things characterised by the acronym BANI, which was proposed a few years ago by Jamais Cascio in an article, 'Facing the Age of Chaos'. The meaning of each component of this new word – B:rittle, A:nxious, N:on-linear and I:ncomprehensible – makes more sense in the face of today’s challenges and in this article, he explains what it means, why it's more appropriate and offers a great infographic that sums it up.
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Matthew Farmer
November 20, 2020 1:50 AM
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Dara Goldberg summarises 5 mindsets that will help people truly live with an open mind based on her own readings and reflections: - Adopt a Growth Mindset
- Employ a Curiosity Mindset
- Know How to Distinguish Your Fears & Negative Assumptions From the Facts
- Identify & Capitalize on Your ‘Free-Brain’ Spaces
- Embrace a Mutuality Mindset
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Emerging World
October 6, 2020 2:04 AM
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The closing remarks from the World Agility Forum 2020 were made by Steve Denning. The forum brought together diverse groups of people interested in Agility and Agile as a management approach and a agreed on a A unified vision that they could all agree on that organizations should be about people creating value for other people.
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Matthew Farmer
September 25, 2020 1:54 AM
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This report from Coqual (formerly the Centre for Talent Innovation) dives into different elements of what constitutes belonging and how different sectors of the workforce experience belonging in the workplace. They identify 4 key elements of belonging: - Being seen
- Being connected
- Being supported
- Being proud
They note different experiences of belonging from different groups. For example, within the American companies included in the survey, on average white men have the highest belonging and Asian women the lowest. Amongst other interesting findings, they also analyse the payoffs that a greater sense of belonging brings such as loyalty, advocacy, engagement and perhaps most critically for those concerned with maintaining diverse workplaces - retention.
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Matthew Farmer
November 2, 2023 3:14 AM
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'Most of us stink at listening. We tend to listen just enough to get the gist of what someone says before we begin to judge, rehearse our response, and then speak again' says Matt Abrahams, lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business and author of Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When you're put on the spot. So what if instead great listening was your superpower? Visual capture artist Zara Stasi shares how CEOs could be gleaning so much more from their interactions using four simple steps. Preparation Principle #1: Understand the Purpose and Goal.” Preparation Principle #2: Prepare a Plan. Preparation Principle #3: Don’t Over-prepare. Preparation Principle #4: Look for Patterns by Knowing What Matters.
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Matthew Farmer
January 31, 2023 2:16 AM
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Listening is not the same as hearing. On a purely physical level, the “hearing” occurs thanks to your ears and consequently your brain. When you are “listening” on the other hand, you need to engage your mind, body and heart. And it is the shift from pure “hearing” to full “listening” that often transforms emotional team situations into moments of collective learning and connection. The model “4 levels of listening” developed by Otto Scharmer, the developer of the famous Theory U, provides a way to understand different kinds of listening, what stops us from listening more deeply and how to cultivate a habit of listening more deeply.
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Matthew Farmer
November 21, 2022 2:27 AM
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'Some of the decisions we make this century will impact the entire course of humanity's future. Contemporary society does not appreciate this fact' argues philosopher William MacAskill. 'To mature as a species, we need to embrace a perspective called longtermism – a way of thinking that differs greatly from the prevalent mindset today.' Longtermism is a perspective that there is a moral reason to consider how the actions and decisions we take today affect the lives of huge numbers of future people.
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Sally Brownbill
October 25, 2022 6:27 AM
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A growing body of empirical research suggests that self-awareness is one of the most important tools you can have in your leadership arsenal.
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Doreen Wanja Mutero
July 29, 2022 5:28 AM
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“A recipe for innovation isn’t ‘add genius and stir,’” Liedtka said. Her research suggests that to improve their odds of success, business leaders need to learn how to help everyone in the organization to think creatively. As she put it, “Innovation happens when you treat it as an outcome—an outcome that takes effort, expertiseand new behaviors and problem-solving skills.”
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Matthew Farmer
July 11, 2022 5:13 AM
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Today’s CEOs are operating in a new landscape, with society and business becoming more intertwined and a broader group of stakeholders registering their expectations and demands. In order to succeed, they must become a different kind of leader, looking beyond the company they steward to shape the ecosystem in which they operate. After talking to 105 board directors (many of whom are also CEOs) from 311 North American companies in 11 industries, the authors identified five steps today’s leaders must take: 1) Know the players in your ecosystem in order to unite around a shared objective 2) Empower your senior leaders to be thought partners, surrogates, and successors who an hold their own with investors, board members, and employees 3) Cultivate an enterprise mindset and an ecosystem skillset that will enable you to act beyond your typical sphere of influence 4) Build the infrastructure of industry coalitions, public-private partnerships, and other organizations who can connect the ecosystem 5) Anticipate the risk that comes from navigating a messy set of social and political interests. While the risks are real, so is the potential for upside.
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Sally Brownbill
June 8, 2022 10:49 AM
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Measuring learning has always been important, but in today’s remote and hybrid workplaces, it’s essential. You can develop, design and deliver the best training programs, but if you can’t show stakeholders across the organization that it actually “worked,” then you’re missing a crucial part of the story.
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Sally Brownbill
May 20, 2022 3:50 AM
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You always knew demonstrating empathy is positive for people, but new research demonstrates its importance for everything from innovation to retention.
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Emerging World
February 15, 2022 1:52 AM
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Salesforce.com is creating a corporate culture epicenter at a California retreat where thousands of workers will connect in person and get training.
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Matthew Farmer
November 24, 2020 2:03 AM
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Demographics are a great exception to this rule of unpredictability. After all, every single 20-year-old of the year 2030 exists right now, today, and they are all ten. So for someone trying to take a peek into the future, demographics offers one of the few variables that have a teeny bit of absolute predictability to them.
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Matthew Farmer
October 27, 2020 3:41 AM
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Harold Jarche maps Personal Knowledge Mastery (PKM) against Dave Snowden's Cynefin Framework. In this he looks at things from the perspective of structure and abstraction and concludes that in the more complex domains the teams, communities nd networks that form need to be less permanent and more flexible.
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Matthew Farmer
September 30, 2020 1:47 AM
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Article from BBC on the use of surveillance software to manage the productivity of remote workers. It askes the question, 'Many have struggled to get to grips with working from home, but would surveillance technology help?'
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The quote: "being discovery driven as a leader is so critical" has stuck for me since reading this article. Discovery means staying curious, asking great questions from diverse individuals, and listening deeply. Read on to understand why you should not be be afraid of longform text, the importance of finding your helpful Cassandras and having a Diversity and Inclusion lense.