Trust and Leadership

What’s good for you can be good for others

People go better when they feel good. It’s something we all know. We can see it in ourselves and in others. It’s also the conclusion of any quality research on the subject of leadership. 

But if it’s that good, why don’t we put more focus on generating that outcome?

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The View from the Air

Feeling overwhelmed? 

Recently, ploughing through reams of leadership theories and models, I stood back from my messy whiteboard and wondered: does management have to be this complicated?

Then I remembered it doesn’t. I escaped this valley of overthink via an old memory: the helicopter view. Using it to organise my thoughts reminded me it’s a remarkable leadership tool in its own right. 

It’s not new. I first heard it in a cadet officer’s course in 1966. It was in army-speak then, but it applies to just about anything. 

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