Posts in Flux and Failure
Grit For Turbulent and Uncertain Times
Grit For Turbulent and Uncertain Times

Mentee Reading | Does it take grit, determination and persistence to succeed, irrespective of good or bad times? Can you turn adversity or turbulence into advantage? What does it mean to lead wisely? What goes through your head when confronted with challenging and uncertain situations? Do you know how to navigate extreme change? How do you protect your psychological well-being and those of others?

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C-Suite, Coach-Mentor, Continuous Learning, Conversations That Matter, Disruption, Flux and Failure, Future Focus, Executive Committees, Leadership, Problem Solving, Reading Circle, The Long View, Think Differently!, Grit and Resilience, Turbulence & UncertaintyDianne JacobsAngela Duckworth, Graham Winter, Martin Bean CBE, Gabriella Kellerman, Martin Seligman, Amanda Ripley, Manfred Kets de Vries, Mary C Gentile, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, Toolkit for Turbulence: The Mindset and Methods That Leaders Need to Turn Adversity to Advantage, Tomorrowmind: Thriving at Work with Resilience, Creativity, High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out, Leading Wisely: Becoming a Reflective Leader in Turbulent Times, Giving Voice to Values: How to Speak Your Mind When You Know What's Right, Dianne Jacobs, The Talent Advisors, Connection-Now and in an Uncertain FutureComment
Make Possibilities Happen
Make Possibilities Happen

Mentee Reading | There are two critical things an executive can influence when it comes to making possibilities happen: your strategy and your ability to execute that strategy. After all, any dream, idea or goal without the ability to bring it to reality is merely wishful thinking. Moving from visualisation to actualisation takes a specific skill set, hyper focus and discipline.

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Boardroom, C-Suite, Coach-Mentor, Conversations That Matter, Effort, Execution, Flux and Failure, Leadership, Make It Happen, Mastery, Problem Solving, Reading Circle, Strategy, The Long View, Think Differently!, Transformation, Multiply Your ImpactDianne JacobsMake Possibilities Happen: How to Transform Ideas into Reality, Grace Hawthorne, How to Begin: Start Doing Something That Matters, Michael Stanier Bungay, The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals, Sean Covey, Chris McChesney and Jim Huling, The Change Book: Fifty models to explain how things happen, Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschappeler, Super Vision: An Eye-Opening Approach to Getting Unstuck, Sherife AbdelMessih, Hyperfocus: How to Work Less to Achieve More, Chris BaileyComment
Lost Leaders
Lost Leaders

Mentee Reading | When life and work don’t go as planned, sometimes under challenging and confronting circumstances, there can be a painful sense of being unable to find the way. Rather than staying lost or being stuck in ‘not knowing’ or making mental mistakes about the future, look for that breakthrough.

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Conversations That Matter, Continuous Learning, Future Focus, Leadership, Problem Solving, Reading Circle, Questions, Stimulating Ideas, The Long View, Think Differently!, C-Suite, Coach-Mentor, Curiosity, Mastery, Disruption, Risk, Transformation, New Business Leader, Flux and Failure, High-Performance, Hidden PotentialDianne JacobsDiverse Thinking, Future, Ideas, Leadership, Imagination, Connection, Invention and Innovation, Outside-In Thinking, Problem Solving, Outside-In Questions, Excellence, facing the future, Business Leadership, Lost Leaders, Future Choices, Future Self, Strengths, Breakthrough, ThriveComment
Future-Proof The Organisation
Future-Proof The Organisation

Mentee Reading | Future proofing the organisation is the focus of this reading list selection, exploring how you can go beyond disruption for a thriving and enduring organisation. Purpose, people, customers and creativity are key. Happy reading and stay curious!

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Boardroom, C-Suite, Coach-Mentor, Continuous Learning, Conversations That Matter, Curiosity, Future Focus, Leadership, Reading Circle, Stimulating Ideas, The Long View, Think Differently!, Disruption, Transformation, Human AI Interaction, Strategy, Executive Committees, Flux and Failure, Problem Solving, New Business LeaderDianne JacobsDiverse Thinking, Disruption, Transformation, Boardroom Dynamics, Rebel Ideas, CEO, Curiosity, Excellence, Future, Ideas, Conviction, Work Creatively, Strategy, Transform, Outside-In Thinking, Digital, Artificial Intelligence, Human - Digital InteractionComment
Flux, Failure and Risk
Flux, Failure and Risk

Mentee Reading | We face flux, change and difficult situations all the time. We may succeed or we may fail. It helps to both fail well and to learn from our success - to understand how we make decisions and our reasoning abilities. We can also learn from ‘risk-takers’ about why they do what they do, how they prepare, and how they’ve handled things going wrong. Happy reading and stay curious!

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Boardroom, C-Suite, Coach-Mentor, Continuous Learning, Conversations That Matter, Future Focus, Leadership, Reading Circle, The Long View, Think Differently!, Problem Solving, High-Performance, Disruption, Transformation, Stimulating Ideas, Curiosity, Executive Committees, Strategy, Risk, Flux and FailureDianne JacobsThe NED and Talent AdvisorsDiverse Thinking, Boardroom Dynamics, CEO, Excellence, Future, Ideas, Strategy, Outside-In Thinking, Outside-In Questions, Conversations That Matter, Leadership, Decision Leadership, Problem Solving, Flux, Failure, Risk, Invention and Innovation Comment