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Lessons in Leadership: Dropping Back

Once the vision is out there, the call to change is made, and assigned actions are distributed, it more effective for leaders to drop back to the beneath, behind, and beside.

Lessons in Leadership: Enough

Enough is an easy measurement when addressing such things as the good and bad I just mentioned but I fear we might be applying such simplicity too freely to all manner of leadership dimensions. 

Lessons in Leadership: Discernment

Discernment is a knowing that may or may not be accompanied by understanding. In other words, discernment senses the "what", but may not understand the "why" or "how".

Lessons in Leadership: The Value of Silence

What's the value of quiet, other than to sleep? What's the big deal about silence and quiet?

Lessons in Leadership: Values

It's the responsibility of leadership to attentively and intentionally set the cultural values of the firm they're leading. Leadership sets the tone of acceptance, inclusion, accountability, and second chances or it drums out the beat of demand performance, marginalization, punitive structures, and diminshment.

Lessons in Leadership: Expanded Perspectives

As a leader, it's critical that you too ask yourself some questions. It's truly important for you to expand your perspective to take in a wider view of what leadership can do to positively advance society.

Lessons in Leadership: Discretion

Discretion is an art, a defined skill lost upon too many. It's the closest sibling of diplomacy and is foolishly mistaken for weakness.

Lessons in Leadership: Lessons Learned and Adopted

So what about the many observed and adopted lessons from the pandemic period? What did we learn? What did we unlearn? What did we re-learn?

Lessons Learned - Paul Hyett (United Kingdom)

Over the last many weeks, we’ve had an opportunity to talk to several professionals and leaders from around the world to get their perspectives on what has been altered coming out of COVID and how it has affected practice (and everyday life!). Today we hear from Paul Hyett, an independent consultant, founding partner of Vickery Hyett, and past President of RIBA.

Lessons Learned - Gaurav Chopra (India)

Over the last many weeks, we’ve had an opportunity to talk to several professionals and leaders from around the world to get their perspectives on what has been altered coming out of COVID and how it has affected practice (and everyday life!). Today we hear from Gaurav Chopra, Managing Director of fivD.