Listening: Beyond the words?
Mark Twain once said that “Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would rather have talked”. For some talking is more difficult than listening; for most, it is the other way round. Good leaders listen. It is an awareness and skill that can...
Tuesday Tip: The importance of ‘the balcony’ and how to build the reflective muscle
Adaptability is not just about being successful in a changing world, evolutionary biology identifies it as essential to survival. One of the most important of the adaptive skills is that of ‘getting on the balcony’. Inherent in the Adaptive Leadership model is this...
Tuesday Tip: How We See: Understanding our lenses – KC
The reality is that we don’t see the world as ‘it is’ but rather as ‘we are’. How we see the world is filtered through our multiple lenses that shape and impact how we interpret the world around us. Embedded in our lenses are multiple biases, both known and unknown,...
Tuesday Tip: What “thinking like a futurist” actually means – and why it’s so important
Succinctly put, what a futurist does is to, ‘build the capacity to see the implications and meaning of change’.
Of course, there are more impressive definitions than this one but for us in TomorrowToday, this is the one that makes sense and is easy to both explain and understand.