Category: Leadership
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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…
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Let’s Explore It
Most of us were taught that success comes from having the right answers. The smartest person.The expert.The one who knows. But life, leadership, and meaningful work rarely operate that way. The people who navigate complexity well aren’t always the ones…
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How do you engage new perspectives in your team?
Every new team member brings something valuable. Not just skills or experience, but a way of seeing; new questions they think are worth asking, assumptions they haven’t yet been told not to challenge, and approaches that feel obvious to them…
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Collective Vs a Collection of Individuals
How do you talk about the people you work with? Not to their faces; in your head, in your emails, in your meetings. Do you say “the board needs to understand…” or “the IT crowd just don’t get it…” or…
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They Call Weird Wisdom “Fluff.” The ISO Standards Disagree.
The framework that gets filed under “soft” is built from the exact behaviour the ISO standards already require. I called my framework Weird Wisdom. In a room full of executives, budgets and risk registers, you can guess how that lands.…
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