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Wally on Leadership

I regularly read Wally Bock’s blog.  He is always coming up with great insights and ideas.
In a recent post he reminded us that:

Leadership is behaviour.
Theory doesn’t count unless it turns into behaviour.
Principles don’t matter until you incarnate them.
If it doesn’t find its way into what you say or what you do, it can’t be leadership.
Leadership [...]

Personal e-mail and reflections on transformation, humanity and compassion!

I got  a wonderful e-mail this morning from an old friend, Jim McLaughlin.
In it he said:
“I love this marriage of science and heart.

It’s where the human potential movement meets good organisational practices.  In fact, if people in organisations were enabled to be their best human selves – loving, forgiving, caring, open, courageous – there would [...]

People Do Not Resist Change

People do not resist change.
Nor do people hate it.
They do not fear it either.

If you are trying to lead a change process and are experiencing resistance, hatred or fear of change consider this:
It is not change that people resist/hate/fear.  It is the way you are trying to change them that they are reacting to.
They are [...]

It’s not them – It’s you!

Your management is perfectly designed to produce the results that you’re currently experiencing.

Teachers and Managers – Spirit and Method

Michael Marland, a visionary London headteacher wrote “The Craft of the Classroom” which has had a profound effect on the development of effective teachers.
In it he wrote:
“The craft won’t work without a spirit compounded of the salesman, the Music Hall performer, the parent, the clown, the intellectual, the lover and the organiser, but the spirit [...]

Money and Stress

As the legendary Bruce Springsteen said back in the 1970s when he just started to win recording contracts – ‘When they pay you $400 a day you get to have $400 dollar a day problems’.
I found a great blog yesterday that quoted some research on the relationship between wealth and stress.
The following five types of [...]

The Fine Art of Progress

I get fired up about management because it the best tool for helping both organisations and the people that work in them to make progress.
Outstanding managers are able to facilitate the progress of both the individual and the organisation and to connect these in a way that results in win/wins for both.
They do this by:

regularly [...]

And Peter’s Rewards…

To enjoy this in its full glory make sure you checked out the previous post on The Motivation Problem first.

Sue Wiley on Why and How PMN Works for Her

Sue Wylie is the office manager at re’new in Leeds.
She has attended four PMN workshops and has used much of what we have covered in her work.  In this podcast she talks about PMN and how it works for her.
Sue explains why;

she thought she would never have enough time for 121s – but now would [...]