Posted Wed, 03/28/2012 - 10:43 by Richard Harmer
I have a dear friend who I think is amazing. When I was learning what it means to be a purpose-focused entrepreneur, it was my friend that inspired me. They had started and grown successful ventures, pushed the boundaries of what others considered possible, supported others to experience life's richness. They are the poster-child for aligning personal passions with what one does in the world. They positively impacted the lives of many.
Posted Fri, 12/16/2011 - 13:24 by Richard Harmer
Leadership as we current understand it is fundamentally flawed. Why? Because leadership as it is most often demonstrated by people brings with it a mindset of 'hero' - a leader is the person out in front creating the new pathway so that others can have an easier time of the journey ahead. Leadership as we know it breeds dependence. Leadership as we know it disempowers leaders.
Here is just one example to demonstrate my point.
Poor levels of employee engagement in many organisations
Posted Fri, 12/16/2011 - 13:20 by Richard Harmer
Leadership as we current understand it is fundamentally flawed. Why? Because leadership as it is most often demonstrated by people brings with it a mindset of 'hero' - a leader is the person out in front creating the new pathway so that others can have an easier time of the journey ahead. Leadership as we know it breeds dependence. Leadership as we know it disempowers leaders.
Here is just one example to demonstrate my point.
Poor levels of employee engagement in many organisations
Posted Fri, 12/16/2011 - 13:17 by Richard Harmer
Leadership as we current understand it is fundamentally flawed. Why? Because leadership as it is most often demonstrated by people brings with it a mindset of 'hero' - a leader is the person out in front creating the new pathway so that others can have an easier time of the journey ahead. Leadership as we know it breeds dependence. Leadership as we know it disempowers.lead.
Here is just one example to demonstrate my point.
Poor levels of employee engagement in many organisations
Posted Tue, 11/22/2011 - 17:22 by Richard Harmer
The global market trends indicate that the next 12-18 months are going to be a roller-coaster ride. Not only are the economic conditions in Europe (namely, Greece, Italy, and Portugal, Spain and Northern Ireland) concerning, but the World Bank is forecasting that China will have less than double digit growth in 2012. And given how strongly Australia's economy is tied to China's growth, it seems likely that our financial resilience will once again be tested.
Posted Wed, 10/12/2011 - 18:30 by Richard Harmer
Earlier this year I was invited by the the Leaders Institute of South Australia to facilitate an Appreciative Inquiry (AI) grounded cross-organisational Think Tank to identify and prototype 'lighthouse initiatives' for enhancing employee and workplace wellbeing (for more information about this
Posted Tue, 10/04/2011 - 18:45 by Richard Harmer
I was recently at the Spirituality. Leadership and Management Conference where I facilitated a short workshop called 'The Three Stories of your life and leadership". The workshop based on an approach to life and leadership I am calling Purposeful Leadership - an approach to leadership that calls upon leaders to ‘lead from the inside out’ in traversing the complexity of social systems in service of the profound and transformative change needed for humanity.
Posted Tue, 10/04/2011 - 07:46 by Richard Harmer
A new approach to leadership is needed: A deeper ‘way of being’ as a leader.
Today’s leaders are being called into a new way of being and leading. Traditional ways of leading and managing are no longer enough; the global business and social environment is now too complex and today’s leaders are too reactive. Today’s leaders need to demonstrate more expansive, integrated and adaptive ways of leading. Purposeful Leadership underpins these attributes.
Purposeful Leadership is a quality of being-in-action.
Posted Thu, 06/16/2011 - 13:57 by Richard Harmer
Over the weekend I had the privilege of attending one of the most engaging, inspiring and thought provoking events I have been involved in for some time. Gathering11 bought together over 120 global change makers passionate about co-creating better futures. Wow, what a buzz.
Posted Mon, 05/30/2011 - 22:24 by Richard Harmer
Have you ever wondered why some change efforts – whether they are within an organisational or social context – stumble, or even fall over? Or, why some efforts to enable or implement a socially focused initiative result in the people involved is this ‘good work’ clashing in ways that jeopardise the very intention of the initiative.
