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Ep 75: The Declining Art of Conversation: Part 3

June 6, 2025

Ep 73: The Declining Art of Conversation: Part 1

June 6, 2025

70: Ep 70: Confessions of a Guru – Part 3: Can you handle the Truth?

The New Series Yes, indeed, Leadership in Chaos is truly back with an exciting new series – Confessions of a Guru. The “Guru” label is deliberately ironic as, in the age of the un-curated digital platform, everyone – it seems – is suddenly a Guru. Self-proclaimed anyway. 😉 The format is to choose a story…

November 28, 2024

69: Ep 69: Confessions of a Guru – Part 2: The “Non-Negotiables”

The New SeriesIf you haven’t already noticed, Leadership in Chaos is back with an exciting new series – Confessions of a Guru. The “Guru” label is deliberately ironic as, in the age of the un-curated digital platform, everyone – it seems – is suddenly a Guru. Self-proclaimed anyway. 😉 The format is to choose a…

November 19, 2024

Ep 68: Confessions of a Guru – Part 1: The Say-Do Gap

Leadership in Chaos is back with an exciting new series – Confessions of a Guru. The “Guru” label is deliberately ironic as, in the age of the infinite digital platform, everyone, it seems, is a guru. By self-appointment. 😉 The format is to choose a story from my 30+ years of working with leaders globally,…

October 29, 2024

Unlocking Business Performance Ian McClean

Ian McClean of Flow Group has devoted his career to building knowledge in essential business specialisms including mergers and acquisitions, executive coaching, executive team alignment, change management, strategy and more.

August 20, 2020

Every Conversation Matters – Ian McClean

Ian McClean, Founder of Flow Group discusses the importance of conversation in every day life and the elements that can make a conversation go from bad to worse. He gives us the tools to avoid residue and create good meaningful conversations

August 20, 2020

How Leaders Create a High Performance Culture, Ian McClean, Talks at Google

Ian McClean spoke at the Google Headquarters in Dublin.

August 20, 2020

Need more Work/Life balance? Achievable Advice

Nobody on their deathbed regrets not spending more time at the office. And in almost twenty-five years of working with some of the smartest business executives, I’ve never met a single one that reckoned to have achieved a perfect balance in their life. Not one. Ever.

How to Get More of What you Want & Less of What you Don’t

So what’s the antidote? The antidote is simple to describe, but not easy to do. What is imperative is to first carve out time to mindfully consider what we really want. Many protest that they can’t afford the time.

Do you suffer from Imposter Syndrome? It’s a thing

Tom Dunne paid tribute to the late Leonard Cohen recently on his Newstalk show by inviting listeners to share their memories of the artistic legend. One fan recalled sneaking backstage after a concert in 2009 and, eluding security, found herself unexpectedly and suddenly face-to-face with her icon. Frozen, physically and verbally, the best she could…

Unconscious Bias: The Silent Hijacker

A teaser A father and son were involved in a car accident in which the father was killed and the son seriously injured. The father was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident and his body taken to the local morgue. The son was taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital and immediately wheeled…

Why Performance Management is broken

Telling fish about water Since before we can even remember, beginning with our first staggering attempts to crawl or walk, we are surrounded by evaluation of our performance. Estimates suggest that students have undertaken more than 2,500 tests or exams by the time they complete secondary education. And domestically, we all get plenty of (often…

At a time of year when organisations are naturally taking stock, employees are being appraised, objectives are being set and business strategies reviewed, it seems that enterprise isn’t the only one on the change offensive if the US report that 67% of the work-force are actively considering a change in their career is true.

Kick-start your career

Guest Post on RTE: Considering a new career or major life change?

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Having-all-the-answers Leadership?

The relationship between leader and orchestra conductor returned to mind this week as the world celebrated a century since the birth of the great Leonard Bernstein. One of Bernstein’s protégés is a colleague and international associate of Flow – Itay Talgam.

Today is my son’s ninth birthday. I mention that although, curiously, we are the only mammal on the planet that either counts or cares for time. Even the teddy bears chose a picnic, not a birthday party. I don’t remember much about being nine but I do remember two things clearly – The Minstrel winning…

February 18, 2018

Resolution Dilution? Here’s What to Do.

Ok so its the first day of 2018 – and if you need some help with those resolutions already, Ian McClean is all over it. White Rabbits aside, humans (curiously) are the only mammal on the planet to worry about time. We alone created the calendar. In this regard January is a peculiarly unique time…

January 18, 2018