Category: Leadership
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Leadership Without Permission: How Influence Actually Works
There is a long history of treating leadership like a rare prize. Something handed out sparingly. Something you earn only after years of proving yourself. Something that lives in certain offices or comes with certain titles. It is one of…
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Micromanaging my Roses
I wanted my rose to bloom so badly that I kept checking on it all day. Micromanaging it. Wishing it would hurry up.Here’s the thing I finally realised: growth doesn’t respond to pressure. You can’t rush the outcome. You can…
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Personality Polishing
We talk a lot about leadership development, but too often it looks more like personality polishing than genuine growth. We smooth off edges, teach people how to pose and present, and end up producing corporate mannequins who look the part…
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Bland Infographics
Can we please stop with the bland infographics telling leaders how to lead? Most of them just recycle the same old rubbish dressed up in meaningless beige. If you want to learn something real, listen to the people actually doing…
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Contradictions Aren’t Dysfunction
Contradictions in your team aren’t dysfunction.They’re signals. A tension between structure and freedom?Disagreements between risk-taking and caution?Friction between moving fast and thinking deeply? Good. That’s where growth begins. When teams embrace Weird Wisdom®, they stop fearing misalignment and start learning…
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Shades of Nuance
A hybrid team struggled to meet the needs of both in-office and remote employees.Policies were rigid, and tensions ran high. A shift came when leadership invited feedback and co-created “flex zones” where teams had autonomy within aligned principles. Instead of…
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Sit with Discomfort
Many organizations operate in “either/or” mode, especially when things get hard. But Weird Wisdom® at Work teaches leaders and teams to sit with discomfort, invite diverse perspectives, and lead into complexity. Real leadership happens when we stop oversimplifying and start…
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Don’t Choose
A global tech company once struggled between prioritizing speed vs. quality.One team wanted to ship fast. The other feared risking brand trust. Instead of picking one, the leader reframed the issue:“What would it look like to be fast and intentional?”…
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Test, learn, Improve
What if your team saw failure not as a red flag, but as a green light for growth? In many traditional workplaces, failure is equated with incompetence.People avoid risk. They stay in their lane. Innovation stalls before it even begins.…
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What if?
What if Gen Z isn’t rejecting leadership… they’re just rejecting our version of it? We keep saying, “They don’t want to lead.” Maybe what they’re actually saying is, “Not like that.” They’ve watched burnout dressed up as ambition. Seen status…
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