resources

collaboration

decisions

Fighting Off Stagnation

Fighting Off Stagnation

When the pandemic first hit, you probably made some adjustments in your personal life, your work practice and even your organizational strategy.

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influencing

Leadership In Times of Crisis – Vol. 7

Leadership In Times of Crisis – Vol. 7

Five or so months since the first cases of COVID-19 began to appear and over two months of stay at home orders and social distancing, we find ourselves entering the next stage of this pandemic.

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innovation

Harnessing Opportunity – Vol. 1

Harnessing Opportunity – Vol. 1

We are living through a tumultuous time (to say the least). Every day seems to bring a new major news story; it’s sometimes easy to forget that we are in the middle of a global pandemic.

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leadership

culture

Harnessing Opportunity – Vol 4

Harnessing Opportunity – Vol 4

We are living in increasingly complex times. As business leaders, we are being expected to balance financial insecurity, remote workplaces, rapidly changing health protocols, racial injustice, gender inequity, climate change…

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strategy

Leadership In Times of Crisis – Vol. 5

Leadership In Times of Crisis – Vol. 5

It appears that we have come to a fork in the road of this current crisis – as medical experts warn of a second wave of the virus and continue to assert the importance of social distancing…

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talent

transformation

Embracing New Mindsets

Embracing New Mindsets

The disruptive power of the COVID-19 pandemic has been truly unprecedented in many ways. While it has no doubt presented us with many challenges and newfound sadness and even despair;

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Doug Williamson - Great Judgment in a World of Uncertainty pdf

Great Judgment

July 13, 2020

Doug Williamson - Social Trust

Social Trust

May 7, 2020

Talent, Loyalty & The Future

February 19, 2020

Igniting Champions

February 19, 2020

Uncovering Hidden Talent

January 22, 2020

Development of the Fittest

January 22, 2020

A Whole New Way of Thinking

December 16, 2019

The Art of Strategic Thinking

December 16, 2019

Leading the Clevers

November 20, 2019

Archives

Organizational Transformation

 

Leaders vs Managers

Leaps vs Incrementalism

Fierce Resolve and Inferiority

Navigating Direction: Mastering Pivot Points

Insight and Perspective

The Invaluable Role of Deviants

Passion For Competition Lecture

Short-Changing the Future

Leader as Chief Disorganizer

Leadership Development

 

Leaders vs Managers

Leaders as Explorers

The Value of an Experience Repertoire

Intelligent Risk Taking

Odd Balls, Lunatics & Heretics

Barriers to High Performance

Leadership as Discovery

Leaders Paint, Managers Prove

People As Renewable Resources

The business community needs a good “kick in the ass” and this book is designed to do just that. It offers practical suggestions and a broadly based plan to help business leaders come to grips with the fact that the leaders we need for the future must be transformational and equipped with a much different set of competencies as well as a thirst for competition on the world stage.

Business leaders and politicians have notoriously short and convenient memories. Each time we hit a predictable cyclical economic downturn, we endlessly debate the reasons, are quick to point the finger of blame and then conveniently use the excuse of external market forces as a means to justify our short-sighted overreaction. This recurring pattern of behaviour does no more than reveal the inherent weaknesses in our leadership acumen, and yet we allow the pattern to continue rather than learn, adjust and compensate accordingly.

We need to find the courage and conviction to transform our economy, through the restructuring of our historical business models and the rapid development of a new generation of leaders equipped to compete with a modern set of leadership competencies. These competencies of the future, and the mindset of global competitiveness, will allow us to remain relevant in the long term, rather than sheltered behind the short-sighted naiveté and complacency which have lured us into believing we are doing better than we really are.

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