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Exploring Leadership Using Metaphors

Last week I spent a day-and-a-half with a group of senior managers from a large global company discussing leadership. The company faces all the challenges one might expect it to face – globalization, digitization, cross-cultural difficulties and so on in … Continue reading

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The Ecocycle: A Mental Model for Understanding Complex Systems

I found this evocative image a short time ago. It captures the intention and spirit of the book admirably: three dragons – I have named them Passion, Reason and Power – scramble on a Moebius strip in a never-ending three-cornered … Continue reading

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Contextual Intelligence: A String in the Labyrinth

This week’s interim blog marks the posting of the Introduction to The New Ecology of Leadership as an excerpt.  What follows below is an extract from the introduction that identifies seven rewards for reading the book: Changing a legacy computing system … Continue reading

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