Recovery from Command-and-Control: A Twelve-Step Program

John Cleese provides some great insights into how NOT to create an environment for teaming and innovating.  Those familiar with the Human Synergistics Circumplex listen out for the Passive and Aggressive leadership behaviours.

If we ignore what is truly important to us, we ignore our greatest source of power. When we fill our lives with activities and attitudes that are congruent with our values, we gain considerable satisfaction and can achieve great things.

If it is true that our past experience forms how we think and behave today then, if we want to think and behave in a different way tomorrow, we must deliberately create experience consistent with what we desire. We must know what to change today, what we want tomorrow and how to take action. “Know…

Being conventional has it’s benefits.  You can manage risk, be reliable, comply with policy and be safe. But, it has it’s down sides.  It restricts creativity and dampens your level of achievement. You end up living someone else’s life. Bend some rules. “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy to growth” – John…

A great friend and colleague sent this to me today.  A wonderful reminder that anything is possible and we should be “off balance on purpose”. We often feel pressure to stay with the patterns of behaviour we know.  The ones that have kept us safe.  We stick with these behaviours even if they don’t work for us…

“Everybody is unique and has the potential to do extraordinary things. The first step is often challenging accepted thinking.” Richard Branson