Normalise Kindness

👉 Normalise kindness to others. You don’t need to go to war each time you go to work. You don’t need to crush competition, beat your peers, exterminate everyone around you to achieve success. The world has enough Alexanders and Genghis Khans. It needs more Nelson Mandelas. Warlords were winners in a world of scarcity. […]

How to build high-performance teams?

Learn from David Beckham and Real Madrid. 👉 A reporter once asked David Beckham if there were any language problems in Real Madrid, since the players were from about eight different countries. He said it was never an issue, because everyone was so good, they never had to talk. They all just did the right […]

The surprising theory behind motivation

Or how to develop intrinsically motivated, high-performing teams? In 1970, a British sociologist warned that paying individuals for blood donations would not only be immoral, but actually reduce the overall blood supply in the country. The theory was ridiculed at the time, so two Swedish economists decided to test the idea twenty-five years later. It […]

Encouragement

To enable by giving courage. When someone in your team is struggling to find an answer, don’t give them the answer. Spoon-feeding readymade solutions will not help them develop their problem solving muscle; it will only make them dependent on you and eventually it will create a team of yes-men / executors (as opposed to […]

How to give good feedback?

One of the best tools to empower others, clarify comms, nudge teams in the right direction and build beautiful relationships is good feedback. But it is an art, to give clear feedback that also lands in a way that makes the receiver feel empowered and not belittled or angry or defensive. The 4 points below […]