Virtues

Today, we are going to talk about values.

I sometimes think that when we talk about values, we tend to think of that group of words sitting on a wall and yes, they’re values. However, if they’re not activated, they’re not really true values.

And a word that hasn’t...

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Openness and Trust

We’re talking about transparency and you can’t talk about transparency without talking about Openness and Trust.

It’s really the core. It’s really the definition of being transparent. It’s that willingness to be vulnerable and to be open and, ultimately, I...

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Leveraging Potential


Transparency builds trust, as we’ve said. But, why would you want to do that? Really it’s around Leveraging Potential.

We have a lot of people in our organisation and we can be the one smart person doing all the thinking or we can leverage the potential of those that are around...

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Leveraging Diversity

I wanted to talk a moment about Leveraging Diversity.

Often, when we go out and hire people, we like the people that are like us and I see it often in teams that I deal with where everybody’s kind of the same.

You have this sort of homogenous group of people who think alike, do...

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Servant Leadership

Servant Leadership.

Sounds a little wussy, sounds a little soft, and yet it is and continues to be, more importantly now than ever, the most effective way of leading an organisation.

Serving those around you, putting others before yourself. It’s been around for a couple of thousand years....

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Risk Appetite

Risk.

Don’t talk to the CEO or the CFO, in particular, about risk.

Risk one of those things where, particularly in large organisations, people don’t like risk. They have risk committees. We try to work out what the risks are and we avoid those things and I’m not talking about...

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