Category: Diversity of Thought
-
Why Being Comfortable with Unknowns Is a Career Superpower
That gap right before you speak up or try something new? It’s not a danger zone. It’s where your best thinking happens. Most of us were taught to close that gap fast; plan, predict, chase certainty. But comfort with the…
-
Don’t Rely on Difference
Difference alone doesn’t get you better decisions. It just creates the potential for discomfort. You can surround yourself with smart, diverse thinkers and still get the same answers, if you never really use them. What matters isn’t the difference in…
-
Tension Isn’t the Problem
Tension gets a bad reputation in teams because it exposes you. So, you rush to smooth it out. Manage it. Damp it down. You call that “good leadership.” But tension isn’t the problem. Avoiding it is. Tension is simply a…
-
Hesitation is Rarely About Personality
In recent times I’ve seen Leaders become risk adverse, they seem reluctant to go against the prevalent winds. When I’ve explored this with them they explain their silence by saying they’re introverted. Not apologetically. Matter‑of‑factly. As though that explanation is…
-
Contribution Leads to Better Thinking
“Fit” is easy to celebrate in teams. It feels comfortable. Familiar. It gives a sense that things are working. People get along. Conversations flow. There is a shared way of doing things that makes everything feel predictable. Leaders, on the…
-
Stop Smoothing Differences
It is natural to want your conversations to feel smooth, easy, polished and predictable. No friction. No awkward pauses. No sense that things might tip into discomfort. You get good at this. Most leaders do. You learn how to keep…
-
Your Evidence Trail Passed. Your Behaviour Was Never Audited.
If you have ever heard yourself say it, you are in good company. We ran the change management program. Everyone completed the training. The policies are there in plain sight for anyone who wants to read them. Each of those…
-
Not Fluff
You can hold every certification on the wall and still lose to the team with the better driver(s). So why do we keep investing in the certificate and starving the thing that drives the result?
-
Diversity of Thought Is Where It Begins, Not Where It Ends
When I tell people what I do, there is a particular response I get often enough that I can almost see it coming. A knowing nod, and then: “Ah, so it is diversity of thought.” I understand why. The phrase…
-
The Skill We Were Taught to Avoid
Think back to your education, your early career, the way you were taught to work. Almost all of it pointed in one direction: reduce the unknowns as fast as you can. Make a plan. Gather the data. Predict the outcome.…
