Category: Leadership
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Beyond Numbers: Ensuring Diversity Impacts Decisions
We have a diverse team” might be the riskiest sentence in your boardroom. Not because it is untrue. Because of what it lets you stop asking. Once a board or an executive team believes diversity is handled, it stops watching…
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Where Good Judgement is Won or Lost
Having diverse people in the room is not the same as having diverse thinking in the decision. You can build the most varied board or team in your sector. Different backgrounds, different disciplines, different histories. And still make narrow decisions.…
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The Essence of The Weird Exchange
Many of us have worked with someone who always had the answers. But the mentors we remember most often did something different. Instead of telling us what to think, they encouraged us to think for ourselves. They asked questions. They…
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Your Client’s Praise Is Not Your Permission
Every marketing expert tells you to name-drop your clients. I do the opposite, and there’s a reason most advisors won’t tell you. If you’ve ever hired a consultant, this one’s about you more than you’d think.
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Building Great Teams Starts with Listening
Every workplace has them; the quiet thinker, the careful observer, and the person who rarely dominates a meeting but consistently notices what others miss. Too often, we mistake confidence for insight. We assume the loudest voices carry the greatest wisdom.…
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What Happens to Teams That Really Use Diverse Thinking
A room full of different people can still end up with groupthink. Difference doesn’t automatically produce different thinking. This video covers what high-functioning teams actually do, inviting the different perspective explicitly, protecting ideas before critiquing them and the three specific…
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Essence of the Weird Exchange
We’ve all experienced meetings where one voice dominates the conversation. Ironically, those meetings often produce the least. The best leaders I’ve worked with aren’t the loudest people in the room. They’re the most curious.They ask thoughtful questions.They draw quieter people…
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A Leadership Necessity
The workplace isn’t becoming simpler. It’s becoming more complex. The ability to navigate unknowns, engage difference, and challenge assumptions isn’t a nice-to-have anymore. It’s becoming a leadership necessity.
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Changing Your Mind
The most effective leaders aren’t attached to being right. They’re committed to understanding more deeply. Weird Wisdom® encourages intellectual flexibility over rigid certainty. Because growth often begins with reconsidering what we think we know. Share a moment when a new…
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WWW part 3
If embracing different thinking were simple, every leader would already do it. It is not simple, and the reasons deserve naming without judgement. The first is that friction feels like failure. We are trained to read a frictionless meeting as…
