Leadership in Chaos
Oct 20, 2020
EP 25: What is Leadership? (in Chaos)
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So far, the Leadership in Chaos Podcast has mostly focused on dealing with the "chaos" in the title. This week, Ian discusses leadership itself. So here's the question. What is leadership?
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Feb 28, 2023
Ep 62: "The Art of Leadership"
“Imagination is more important than Knowledge – Albert Einstein”
What has Art got to do with Leadership? Throughout nearly 30 years of working with leaders and leadership, the very best leaders I’ve encountered all have had one thing in common irrespective of geography or industry: the sensibility of an artist. This was reinforced to me recently when attending a screening of a documentary produced by Maria Doyle Kennedy about the life and work of Irish artist Patrick Scott. After all, leadership is all about creating something novel and new from just your imagination combined with the resources at your disposal whilst inspiring others to join in its creation. So just what is that artistic sensibility that separates the best from the rest?
*Insights include:*
-The fallacy of the equation: Good Leadership = Good Results
-The best leaders are committed to creating a thing of Beauty
-How the Physicist and the Artist are both opposites and the same
-The root of authenticity and charisma
-The 3 Primary Characteristics of Beauty – Radiance, Integrity, Consonance
-Sage advice for appointing the next new leader (or anyone!)
*Related Episodes*
Episode 52 - Zoom Out Often
Episode 45 – Finding Flow in Chaos
Episode 43 – Building Trust in Teams
Episode 40 – Leading Teams in Chaos – Part 2
Episode 34 – Finding Meaning in Chaos
Episode 26 – The Leadership ContributionSupport the show
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Feb 14, 2023
From the Archives: EP 29: Deepening Connections in Chaos
Whilst not obligatory that you “love” your people at work - in the amorous sense! - people at least need to know you, as the leader, have got their best interests at heart.
On this Valentine’s Day, it is worth remembering that your connection to those that matter makes an enormous contribution to your leadership impact and results.
Here’s one of my favourite episodes “From the Archive”: A timely reminder of why and how to …
In this episode I explain:
* What Star Wars has to do with building connection
* How we often think we’re building connection when in fact we’re not
* How our Tacit Wisdom is stronger than our intellectual knowledge
* What to focus on to deepen connection
…And ..our discomfort with silenceSupport the show
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Jan 19, 2023
EP 60: Leadership Manifesto - 25 Principles for Leading in Chaos
I started the Flow(group) business exactly 25 years ago this month - in January 1998.
I can’t brag, because Google started up the same month.
For context, it was the year Apple unveiled the *iMac*; the *Bill Clinton*/ *Monica Lewinsky* scandal; the FDA approved the *Viagra* pill (not related); and the *NI Good Friday Agreement* (definitely not related).
During the time, in addition to the quotidian demands for change, our clients and our business has had to navigate 3 major Global Economic disruptions – spaced roughly a decade apart (just to keep us on our toes!):
-Dotcom Bubble Implosion (2000)
-Global Financial Crash (2009-10)
-Covid Pandemic (2020+)
What’s made the quarter-century journey most worthwhile is the *Learning about Leadership*.
It’s been like attending a real-time, experiential *Leadership Academy every day for 25 years* where the case studies are playing out in the raw, moment by moment. Witnessing the best and the worst of leadership has led to insights you couldn’t possibly find in any one book.
The Manifesto is a consolidation - into 25 Principles - of the essence of How to Be as a leader in a world of unending Chaos.
Related Episodes
Episode 59 – *Leadership in Lay-offs - Twitter Vs Stripe*
Episode 58 – Leadershipinchaos.gov.uk – How Liz Truss authored her own downfall
Episode 26 – The Leadership Contribution
Episode 5 – Clarity in Chaos
Episode 3 – Communicating in ChaosSupport the show
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