Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The Business Cap = The Leadership Cap
Have you found that your business is not growing like it used too? Have you found that the number of employees, your revenue, or your customer base has peaked? Nothing seems to be broken, sales are still good, relationships with stakeholders are positive; but the growth is not there or hasn’t been for a while.…
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The State of Wellbeing
Over the last several years, wellbeing has been a significant focus within health and safety legislatures, especially mental health and wellbeing. Businesses with large mobile workforces, like the mining or oil and gas industries, and occupations subject to trauma exposure and violence, such as the Defence Force, Emergency Services, or public transport personnel, have been…
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Are You Preparing for Change?
Individually, and for our businesses, change is just around the corner, or it is happening right now. We could try and put our head in the sand and pretend it won’t happen, but unfortunately it will. We just have to look to yesterday, last week, last month, or last year, and see the progressive nature…
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Are You Reaching Toward Your Potential?
Last time I shared on the habits we are forming at this time in isolation, and the challenges in forming and breaking bad habits when it comes to an end. But habits in general have the potential to make or break us. Think about those goals in our personal and working lives, and what habits…
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What are Your Current Habits
We are finding ourselves in unusual times; working from home, out-of-work waiting for new opportunities, waiting for the restrictions to be lifted. Our days are different from what we were experiencing two months ago. We probably have spare time from not having to travel to work, or if we are not working, too much time…
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Developing others
I am currently in the stages of writing a book on leadership traits. One characteristic I have identified is Developing Others. Many businesses say leadership development is important, but this usually receives the least amount of effort and resources because the return on investment is not as evident or timely as other processes or projects. …
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Your Crew – Competent, or Not?
Last month I raised the question as to whether the Captain (=CEO/MD) was just steering the ship, or instead charting the course for the business to follow. I left a second question hanging; the competence of your crew to help the vessel (=business) get to the destination safely. I have seen far too many organisations…
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Are you Steering the Ship or Charting the course?
I love the analogy of comparing the course of a business to a journey, and especially an ocean-going journey. When I look at the “leadership” of an organisation, I always look to see whether the Captain (CEO/MD) is steering the ship or charting the course. If they are “Managers”, they will typically steer the ship,…
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What are the “Values” (Part 2)
In Part 1, I discussed how I had recently observed some organisations revising their values based on the need to feel fresh or because someone external to the business thought it was a good idea. I also mentioned that the previous values of these businesses were not wrong but reflected the essential characteristics and culture…
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What are the “Values” (Part 1)
Just recently I have seen a few organisations going through the process of revising their overarching vision and their values. These organisations have typically been in operation for more than 10 years, and have had both visions and values in the past. They were firmly established in their marketplace and were seeing positive growth. Their…
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