The Annual Gathering of the World Government Summit, held in February in Dubai, hosts over 4000 participants and invites world leaders, international organizations’ representatives, thinkers, and experts from over 150 countries. This year, Sue Langley was invited, and in this article, she writes about her experience.
Being a great leader can feel as elusive as cracking a secret code. It doesn’t have to be.
A culture of innovation is founded on forgiveness. Yet in many workplaces people are put under unforgiving pressure to turn ideas into innovative advantage, with little patience for mistakes.
If organisations were mindful, rather than mindless as they often are, leadership would be quite different. In this guest blog, previously published on the Harvard Business Review blog as part of a six-part series on the future of leadership, and her website, Harvard professor Ellen Langer explains why it is time for leaders to wake up. […]
Many of us know what great leadership or innovation looks like and what we should be doing to deliver on our strategies. Most of us also agree that we get the best and most creative outcomes for ourselves and others when feeling energised and positive. It’s often common sense yet is not always common practice. […]
“To crack the leadership code, you’ve got to care about people, you’ve got to be interested in people. I think once you can genuinely be interested in people then developing those skills… will follow. You need to care about people… And show up as the best version of yourself.” Sue Langley recently spoke with Dr Michelle Pizer, for Crack the Leadership Code 2016, an online leadership summit. Michelle asked Sue for her insights on future leadership trends, and some of the strategies leaders can take to support people, build positive, innovative workplaces and make a real [...]
Smart organisations can achieve improvement and business benefits by equipping leaders with the capabilities to create a positive culture that leads to thriving performance.
How do you help organisations achieve positive, rapid and sustainable change? Traditionally change in organisations has been a top-down, linear, compliance process; first designed and then implemented. In today’s fast paced and complex world this takes too long and is too hard. People resist the pressure. Instead we need change that is whole-system owned and generated, focused on maximising tomorrow not fixing yesterday. To create that kind of positive, forward-thinking change we need to do it together. We need to co-create the future we want to see happen. […]
Leadership and culture are key foundations to support the increased productivity and performance demanded of organisations and individuals in our fast-changing workplaces. […]
