Why leadership feels heavier than it used to
Why Leadership Feels Heavier Than It Used To Leadership today feels heavier than it used to. Not in a dramatic, transformational way – there’s been no single moment of collapse, no obvious breaking point. Meetings still happen, strategies are presented, decisions get made. From the outside, leadership appears largely unchanged. In my interaction with business […]
What Failure Taught Me About Leadership: From Linear Growth to Exponential Thinking
When Success Stopped Being Possible For a while, things seemed to be going well in my career path. The stats were good, the stakeholders were happy, and the plans seemed to be functioning. Then, slowly and almost without notice, the cracks started to show. A project we were sure would grow suddenly stopped. Every time […]
Moonshot Thinking: Why Most Leaders Set Their Goals Too Low
A few months back, I looked over the transformation strategic plan for a successful company in Malaysia. Predictions for revenue was up with diversification in multiple businesses. Everything made sense, was possible, and was backed up by evidence. I then asked a simple question, what is a competitor reached their growth target 10 times faster […]
Who are Exponential Leaders?
What does it mean to be an exponential leader? After over twenty years of teaching and coaching business executives, I’ve seen a big change in what makes some businesses successful and others barely make it. The executives I work with now have problems that didn’t exist when I first started consulting, and the playbook that […]
Managing in a VUCA environment
LIn a recent workshop which I conducted for the senior leadership team of a public-listed company, one discussion topic centered around managing within a VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity) environment. The traditional principles of business management are being tested as never before by the proliferation of exponential technologies and the dynamic transition from a […]
The Experimentation Mindset
In some of my coaching and training, I tend to check with the participants, especially those in product development, whether they have the initial tendency to begin improving their new product if their customers are not interested. Unsurprisingly, they will answer with a resounding yes. This may be appropriate in a world of scarcity, where […]
Scarcity Vs Abundance World
Throughout my years working with businesses across Malaysia and neighboring countries, I’ve witnessed a fundamental shift in how companies approach their markets—a transition from what I call scarcity thinking to abundance thinking. Early in my career, I watched businesses operate under the assumption that everything valuable was limited. Businesses treated raw materials, specialized talent, and […]
Navigating the Exponential Storm: What Two Decades of Training and Consulting Taught Me About Change Management
After over two decades of working with businesses, I’ve seen the pace and nature of change grow in ways that fundamentally challenged what we thought we knew about managing organizational transformation. When I initially started training and consulting, change management followed a set pattern. You’d analyze the problem, develop a thorough strategy, articulate the vision, […]