Love this image from a recent post by Gaping Void. Diversity of thought is a topic I am highly passionate about. One of my core values is "Fair" and the conscious and unconscious biases in our world, ranging from race to gender to sexual orientation to religion to...
Distributed Trust
The biggest hidden asset in your business
Prior to my focus over the last decade on leadership and so people, I spent nearly twenty years focussed on numbers and building value in businesses. A key part of that is assessing the hidden assets in a business, the stuff that isn't always apparent in the financial...
When to fight, when to accept?
I recently learned a powerful lesson from someone close to me who has a disease that they are choosing how to address. They shared with me that they learned from their doctor that this was not something you "fight", as to approach it from a "fight" mindset means that...
Risk taking, trust, serendipity
"Risk-taking, trust, and serendipity are key ingredients of joy. Without risk, nothing new ever happens. Without trust, fear creeps in. Without serendipity, there are no surprises." ~ Rita Golden Gelman A friend shared this with me the other day. I love it ! Allow me...
How do we know what we know? Posing Puzzles
How do we know what we know, and how do we know we know what we know?
The Distributed Trust revolution
A revolution on Distributed Trust with TED Talk by Rachel Botsman. In our UNTHINKABLE era, #Open Leadership is the way forward for leading through such radical disruption, as we are not living in an era of incremental change, it is and will be...
Even thought leaders can’t keep up
The speed of change in our era means to lead, to stay ahead of what is current, to be thought leaders, means to stay in context. In recent articles, I've focussed on DISTRIBUTED TRUST. As a term, it is currently mostly applied at a technical level, and mostly to areas...
Love, trust and Distributed Trust
Love is about trust, and I do believe we are entering into an era of Trust and Love. I am hugely excited about the future of our world. Yes, we live in an UNTHINKABLE time and the speed of change renders the way we historically have learned and lead obsolete. However,...
Distributed Trust in the UNTHINKABLE age
Distributed trust is going to change our world, and at such a speed we cannot even imagine. As regular readers know, I'm obsessed with the idea that #OpenLeadership is a radical approach that can make a massive difference for humanity and our planet in this...