Leading with Heart: Why Kindness Is a Leadership Essential, Not a Weakness

Kindness isn’t just a nice personality trait. It’s a core leadership skill. In today’s world, leaders are often expected to be sharp, strategic, and results-driven. But without kindness, leadership becomes cold and transactional. Kindness is what transforms leadership from managing…

From Surviving to Thriving: A Leader’s Guide to Human Flourishing

Would you say you’re flourishing? It’s not a word we hear often in today’s fast-paced world. A little whimsical, a little niche. It sounds more at home in poetry or therapy than in the boardroom. Yet recently, in an interview…

Essential Leadership: Why What You Say ‘No’ To Defines Your Success

The higher up you go, the more opportunities and demands come your way: Invitations, initiatives, partnerships, boards, new ventures. If you're not careful, you can run yourself into the ground trying to do it all. The older I get, the…

Beyond the Flood: How Noah’s Story Reveals Timeless Leadership Truths

I recently came across this quirky image about life lessons from Noah’s Ark. At first, it made me chuckle. But then it hit me—Noah’s story isn’t just charming. It’s a masterclass in Kingdom leadership. In a world chasing the latest…

From Bureaucracy to Breakthrough: Bayer’s DSO Revolution in Year One

Leadership Memo 2025-4 Last year, I wrote a mini-series on Bayer's audacious corporate experiment under CEO Bill Anderson. A year has passed. Let’s see how this bold venture is faring. Let me refresh your memory. Bayer is a US$50 billion…

Watch Your Words: They’re Leading Even When You’re Not

Sometimes our words are like a sledgehammer. We swing away without thinking and then we’re surprised to find ourselves in a pile of relational rubble. When you use your words to tear people down, your relationships and your leadership are…

What your strongest emotions are really trying to tell you

Every behavior is based on a belief. If you act scared, it’s because you believe you’re in a scary situation. When you act resentful, you believe you’ve been devalued, so you want to defend yourself. If you’re acting prideful, you…

Transformational Leadership: Creating Confidence in Your Team, Not Just in You

In today’s fast-changing workplace, understanding the difference between managing and leading is more important than ever. True leadership goes beyond titles and structures. It takes a more thoughtful, people-centred approach to guiding teams toward success. As Dr. Miro Bada suggests,…

The Secret to Stronger Leadership: Asking the Right Questions

Leadership Memo 2025-3 Great leaders don’t just provide the right answers; they know how to ask the right questions. In business, a good answer may solve today’s problem, impress a boss, or satisfy a client. But what happens when the…

The Remote Revolution: Why Trust Outperforms Proximity

Can your people work with just a computer and access to the Internet? If so, remote work is no longer just a perk. It’s a necessity. And if remote work isn’t working for your company, the issue might not be…