Culture, Leadership, Motivation
Quite a few of my recent blogs have focused on the issue of confidence and how problematic certain ways of framing confidence are when it comes to leadership. In particular, how it skews the leadership pool and then backfires on us. For those of you asking yourself...
Coaching, Leadership, Motivation
Confidence is not one of the key personality characteristics required for leadership. And it is worse than irrelevant, too much confidence can end up in choices and actions that are dangerous to others. Confidence does affect who is chosen for a leadership role, but...
Coaching, Leadership, Motivation
While well-meaning, the idea that it is someone’s lack of confidence that is the reason they are not being promoted should be treated with incredulity. There are at least three reasons why the idea ought to be banned: Telling someone to increase their confidence...
Influence, Leadership, Motivation, Power
In my previous blog I wrote about the ways in which we underestimate the power we have, and therefore miss opportunities to both be more influential and be more satisfied with how we go about influencing others. In her book ‘You have more influence than you think’...
Influence, Leadership, Motivation, Power
Without getting caught up in the politics, there are a couple of huge issues in the public domain right now and observing how leaders use their power to influence others is fascinating viewing from the sidelines. Who has power, what kind, and how they use it, always...