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What’s the difference between leadership and management?
Leadership vs Management, who wins in a fight? The terms.. Read more
Four steps to changing the world
How to change the world: Step One. 1. Be Frustrated. .. Read more
Not all difficult conversations are the same.
Not all difficult conversation are the same. Do you know the difference?
One of the key things to understand about difficult conversations is they come in three forms and if we get the form wrong, the conversation session can go extremely badly.
Which came first the economy or society?
January 26, 2021 Benjamin Drury
I listen to Freakonomics Radio Podcast most weeks. It covers interesting topics around the economy in interesting ways. The host Stephen Dubner chats to really smart people who’s ideas and thinking is backed up with quality research. I’m a fan. This month I wasn’t a fan. I was listen to an episode 447 on ‘How much we care about our.. Read more
Are you a leader or a controller?
January 18, 2021 Benjamin Drury
So many leaders in organisations today are just glorified controllers. They don’t lead people they control people. They get people to do what they want through control. True leaders inspire. True leaders attract people who want to follow. They have no need to control. They respect and gather people who want to be part of the vision they are building… Read more
Redeeming capitalism in rehab.
January 4, 2021 Benjamin Drury
Redeeming capitalism is like helping an addict in rehab. It’s not going to be easy and we’ll have to keep focused, but it will definitely be worth it and better for everyone if we can do it. You see, capitalism can be good. In fact, real capitalism IS good and powerful and enjoyable for everyone if we get it right… Read more
5 Reasons to throw away your company values
September 7, 2020 Benjamin Drury
What do you mean I need to throw them away? I thought every company needed to be explicit about their values. I thought it was important to understand and live your core values. You, the reader. You’re totally right. Absolutely it is. It clarifies your team’s focus. It makes sure what’s important stays front and centre when making decisions. When.. Read more
The triple bottom line: capitalism is too myopic.
June 22, 2020 Benjamin Drury
Modern capitalist organisations are far too myopic in their view of success, only measuring achievement with a very narrow set of metrics – all financial. To truly measure the actual success of an organisation we should be looking far more widely at the impact it has on the world around it. We should be looking at a triple bottom line.. Read more
Unreasonable people change the world
June 15, 2020 Benjamin Drury
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” George Bernard Shaw Mahatma Gandhi was unreasonable in his non-cooperation with British rule and boycott of British goods in the early part of the 20th century and his country was forever changed… Read more