Category: Leadership by Soul
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What is Leadership By Soul?
Leadership By Soul is your monthly dose of leadership insight and perspective by SoulSystems CEO Jonathan Wilson. Look for the email sign-up on this page.
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Clear-Eyed & Calm: Leadership in a Time of Crisis (Part 2)
How to make good leadership decisions within the confusion of a crisis. Main Article: To lead our organizations effectively through a crisis, we need to counter the tunnelling and isolationist effects of fear. We need to find a way to the kind of clarity that brings calm, and that leads to better decisions. This requires…
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In Search of Stable Ground: Leadership in a Time of Crisis
How to provide stable leadership when everything around you is unstable and threatening. Main Article: In a time of such overwhelming and threatening complexity, leaders who do not recognize, acknowledge and understand the powerful dynamic of fear will not be able to counter it with stable leadership. Read More at Leadership by Soul
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Leadership in a Time of Crisis
Accessing the resources we need to lead effectively in a time of crisis. Main Article: It is a season of fear, but it doesn’t need to be. A measure of fear is essential in crisis, but beyond that, the normal fear responses of fight, flight or freeze will not provide the leadership people need right…
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Big Boss: How (Not) To Use Your Power
There are two basic kinds of power in organisations, and each plays a role in achieving powerful outcomes. Main Article: International business is not, very often, glamorous. There were nine of us around the table in a cramped room in a squat building squeezed between grubby condominiums and shiny hotels in a narrow Hong Kong…
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The Dark Night of Leadership
Progress, collapse, recovery and the making of healthy leaders. Main Article: Here’s the kind of story we like in business. Ten years ago this month, with barely a penny to my name, I sat in a government office, obeyed my belief that business should do good, and registered Soul Systems as a company: the tagline,…
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Leading Change
Nothing that changes the world is accomplished by those who won’t change their own lives to make it happen. Main Article: On December 10, 1901, my great-grandmother, known as “The Duchess” for her refined ways, set sail for the Belgian Congo. Only two weeks before she had married my great-grandfather, with whom she now sailed. …
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Unlearning Capitalism
How we can unlearn the flaws of Capitalism and rethink its key components in order to do business better. Main Article: My mother vividly remembers where she was and what she was doing the day John F. Kennedy was shot dead on the streets of Dallas, Texas. You probably remember where you were and what…
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Learn to Unlearn
How to unlearn the flawed assumptions that prevent us from transforming our world and ourselves. Main Article: On a lonely mountain airstrip surrounded by rainforest, two foreign workers and their Yali tribal friend in possession of the wonderfully odd name, Fingernail, climbed into a small, single-engine propeller aircraft. The pilot gunned the engine until it…
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Transform Conflict
How to understand the dynamics of conflict so that you can stop the damage and enable transformation, drawing on lessons from war-zones to boardrooms. The politician’s bodyguard and I relaxed on the winter-browned lawn under the pleasant warmth of the South African sun. But his story was chilling my heart. “I once knew a man…