Leadership by Influence, Rather Than Control, Can Yield Better Results
Excerpted from Francis Cholle’s The Intuitive Compass, Jossey-Bass Leading by influence is about relinquishing control and allowing the natural creative process of evolution. This may seem...
View ArticleThe Intuitive Compass™: a model for creativity and agility
Excerpted from Francis Cholle’s The Intuitive Compass, Jossey-Bass The business world has been turned upside down by the rapid adoption of technological innovations and the globalization of many...
View Article7 Questions to See if Your Leadership Mindset Meets Today’s Challenges
Excerpted from Francis Cholle’s The Intuitive Compass, Jossey-Bass In the new leadership mindset, the conventional view of hierarchical power is replaced by a web of interconnected relationships. It...
View ArticleHow to Create a Work Culture that Maximizes Creativity and Agility
Excerpted from Francis Cholle’s The Intuitive Compass, Jossey-Bass To get the most out of employees in terms of creativity and agility, you need to create a work culture that enables them to explore...
View Article3 Key Steps You Can Take Now to Deal with Disruption
According to a 2013 Oxford Martin School study, nearly 50% of jobs in the US today will have disappeared by 2025 due to artificial intelligence and automation. Many middle management positions will...
View Article5 Key Questions to Move Your Marketing/Branding Conversation Forward
Excerpted from Francis Cholle’s The Intuitive Compass, Jossey-Bass Marketing and Branding can no longer be a one-way conversation in which companies dictate to consumers. To achieve top-of-mind status...
View ArticleDoes Your Business Truly Focus on Value Creation?
Excerpted from Francis Cholle’s The Intuitive Compass, Jossey-Bass Whereas the traditional business model was solely about profit, the new business model is about sustainable value creation. In the...
View ArticleWhy You Need Intuition in Business (part one)
In Frederic Laloux’s recent groundbreaking book “Reinventing Organizations”, he makes the case for the value of developing your intuition: Wisdom can be a found in intuition, too. Intuition...
View ArticleWhy You Need Intuition in Business (part two)
This week we continue exploring techniques to sharpen and hone your intuition. For more about the case for intuition in business, check out last week’s post. Relax and Practice Noticing the...
View ArticleAn Important Listening Exercise to Sharpen and Develop Your Creative Skills
Excerpted from Francis Cholle’s The Intuitive Compass, Jossey-Bass I am going to teach you an exercise, call The Listening Posture, in which you focus on your ability to listen differently. Listening...
View ArticleBeyond Google’s Logo: Leadership Lessons For All
In honor of Google’s new logo, we decided to revisit what makes Google such a visionary company and what others can learn from them. From its inception, Google was born from an ideal. Google’s vision...
View ArticleHow to Take the Leap to Sustainable Value Creation
My advice to any executive who has decided to take on an accelerated path to innovation and sustainable growth is to resist the temptation to systematically seek immediate financial results and...
View ArticleWhy We All Need Intuitive Intelligence
We attempt to interact with one another and arrange our institutions in hierarchical pyramids, because we have been taught that the world fundamentally operates according to physical laws that believe...
View ArticleWhy Ritual is an Important Part of Leadership
Excerpted from Francis Cholle’s The Intuitive Compass, Jossey-Bass Ritual is powerful and can be used to engage people in ways that words alone cannot. Rituals are meant to affect the body through...
View ArticleYou Already Have All the Resources You Need to Succeed
Excerpted from Francis Cholle’s The Intuitive Compass, Jossey-Bass Play opens us up to the possibility that we don’t need more of anything—time, money, knowledge, and so on—in order to produce more....
View ArticleNavigating the Shift to Play
Excerpted from Francis Cholle’s The Intuitive Compass, Jossey-Bass If innovation is key to corporate success, and if play is the door to innovation, then the next logical question (logic does have it...
View ArticleThriving in the New Normal: Change
It is a truism that the one thing that doesn’t change in life is change; we are constantly dealing with the unknown. A decade immersed in the performing art and cultural studies gave me a new...
View ArticleHOW YOU MAKE DECISIONS Questionnaire
Where do you fall on the Intuitive Compass®? A great way to start understanding the Intuitive Compass® is to actually use it. Take a few minutes to answer the following questionnaire; your answers will...
View ArticleHow and Why to Apply Gut Feelings to Business
I know we promised you an decoding of your intuitive compass, and with our greatest apologies, it will come next week. In the meantime… Because our instinct is responsible for our survival, it actually...
View ArticleDecoding your Intuitive Compass®
As promised, here is our blog post on decoding your Intuitive Compass®. If you missed our “How you Make Decisions Questionnaire”, check it out here. For more information about the Intuitive Compass®...
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