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Leadership in Chaos
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Concise lessons in leadership for a world of uncertainty

Leadership In Chaos
EP 57: Leadership Manifesto: Principle #18 – Keep Your Focus – Avoid Procrastination
To be human is to procrastinate. The Greeks even had a special word for it "akrasia". However, it’s not a great device for leadership effectiveness when keeping focus is critical. The tendency towards Procrastination, and it’s full-sister Distraction, is becoming increasingly a topic of conversation with leaders. Ian discusses why does it happen? why is it increasingly emerging now? and
August 9, 2022
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EP 56: Leadership Manifesto: Principle #19 – Stay Golden – Look after #1
Normal service is resumed as Ian returns to the Manifesto and explores how to preserve and protect the biggest asset any team has – you as the leader. Often ignoring their own needs and deprived in the service of others, the book title “Leaders Eat Last” promotes the idea of servant leadership (which I applaud by the way) ….however….Leaders Gotta
June 1, 2022
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EP 53: Leadership in the New World (Dis)Order – Part 1
Ian is interrupting normal service for a newsflash! Such has been the demand recently out there for a succinct summary of what it means to be a leader now we are starting The Great Reset for society, work and life, that Ian has composed a triple-decker episode that roughly mirrors a keynote he is delivering to address the question. Many
May 5, 2022
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EP 54: Leadership in the New World (Dis)Order – Part 2
In Part 2 of 3, Ian further explores Leading in the New World of (Dis) Order. Ian looks at the neuroscience of leadership, the Intention/ Impact gap and the importance of Self Awareness. Enjoy!
May 5, 2022
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EP 55: Leadership in the New World (Dis)Order – Part 3
In part 3 of 3, Ian continues this mini season on Leadership in the New World (Dis) Order. Insights include: How Leadership is the Same but Different. How we invest in the wrong things. Leadership’s 2 Great Underestimations. The 3 Magic Ingredients for post-pandemic leadership. Why Curiosity is the new Courage.
May 5, 2022
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EP 52: Leadership Manifesto: Principle #20 – Zoom Out Often
We often do our best thinking when we are not thinking. From Archimedes to Newton, great breakthrough discovery examples “away from the job” are rife in science, technology and the arts. It appears that it is often through a break that we really break through. Leadership is fundamentally about setting the right direction and making the right choices. Those choices,
March 31, 2022
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EP 51: 2 year anniversary & 50 Episodes later….Reflections of an accidental podcaster.
It’s almost 2 years to the day since Ian began this podcast and 50 episodes later, he wanted to pause and momentarily to Zoom Out and reflect.
March 15, 2022
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EP 50: Leadership Manifesto: Principle #24 – Choose Consciously and Wisely
“In every situation there is a space between the situation and how you respond”. Viktor Frankl. Think about this : The quality and situation of your life right now is the aggregate total of every decision you have ever made. Luck certainly plays a part - and there have been many “sliding doors” moments I’m sure, but ultimately, it is
March 3, 2022
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EP 49: Leadership Manifesto: Principle #25 Happiness in 3 Parts
“There is no way to Happiness. Happiness is the way.”Thich Nhat Hanh. In response to the reaction from the “Leadership Manifesto – 22 Principles for ‘22” episode, Ian has been persuaded to build out the Manifesto into a season, with each episode delving into the principles one by one, and in greater detail. Starting with #22 we will work backwards
February 15, 2022
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EP 48: Leadership Manifesto: 25 Principles for Leading in Chaos in ’23
Building on the previous episode of Chaos as the new constant, Ian composed a Leadership Manifesto for the absurd times we live in titled Principles for Leading in Chaos of’22 Leadership Principles include:Hold your Assumptions lightly, not tightly. Use your imagination wisely, Beware your Comparative Mind, Communicate for your Audience, not Yourself. Iterate! And Re-Iterate.
January 13, 2022
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EP 47: Chaos is the New Normal
The popularised phrase “New Normal” is at best lazy, and at worst destructively misleading for leadership in every dimension – language, expectation and mindset. Yet people continue to strive for and promote it. For 30 years, the most popular remark Ian consistently hears from leaders going through change is “I can’t wait until this is over and we can return
December 17, 2021
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EP 46: Lessons from COP26
In Episode 46, Ian explores the lessons and parallels we can extract from the 2 week COP26 summit and how they map across to your world as a leader. This episode builds perfectly onto our previous mini-season on Leading Teams in Chaos (episodes 39-42).
November 24, 2021
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EP 45: Finding Flow in Chaos
Last month saw the passing of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of Flow – the seminal work that describes the human state of happiness, optimal experience and high performance. The book (and his research) has subsequently influenced everything from office design, to how to train soldiers, website and video game design amongst everything else. In this episode, Ian commemorates the author by
November 3, 2021
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EP 44: Do The Right Things
According to Peter Drucker – if management is about doing things right, then leadership is doing the right things. Ian took a break from the Podcast for some Zooming Out time during summer but, since his return, has found it a very big challenge to return to the discipline of the broadcast because of competing pressures. This episode uses this
October 11, 2021
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EP 43: Building Trust in Teams – Part 1
In this sub-set of the mini-season on Leading Teams in Chaos, Ian focuses on Trust. Isn’t it peculiar that whilst everyone agrees that Trust is a crucial ingredient to growing high performance in a team, Ian has never - in almost 30 years working with teams globally - been asked to host a conversation to discuss the topic specifically. In
July 1, 2021
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EP 42: Leading Teams in Chaos – Part 4
In this fourth part of a mini-season on Leading Teams in Chaos, Ian reflects on how nearly all leaders know what it’s like to be part of a highly effective team, but very few know how to build one. He also consolidates the agreements a team needs to make, and explores the 4 Commitment Cards to arrive at those agreements
June 10, 2021
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EP 41: Leading Teams in Chaos – Part 3
In this third part of a mini-series on Leading Teams in Chaos Ian discusses how Behaviour is the orphaned child of Effectiveness. Why Task is consistently prioritised over Behaviour. Why talking about Culture empties the room and how to agree Ways of Working that gets commitment and lasts.
May 12, 2021
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EP 40: Leading Teams in Chaos – Part 2
In this second part of our mini-series on Leading Teams in Chaos, Ian focuses on why leaders need to look focus on “Agreeing the Why”. This concentrates on the importance of connecting a team to its purpose, as a chief source of meaning and motivation. Enjoy!
April 15, 2021
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EP 39: Leading Teams in Chaos – Part 1
In this first part of a mini-season on Leading Teams in Chaos, Part 1 observes how the Covid story is writing itself, chapter by chapter, how Leaders are gradually now looking to Reset, Realign and Refocus their Teams. This mini-season focuses on helping you with the how and why.
March 25, 2021
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EP 38: How Now From Here – Part 4
In the final part of this series, Ian explores the final 3 C's of "being at your best when things are at their worst". Be Connected, Be Creative and Be Caring. Enjoy!
March 4, 2021

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