Following a presentation on Invitational Leadership at a two day workshop for senior leaders at a prominent multi-national, the CEO of the company and I engaged in a chat about values and the role they play in a company. He invited me to email him some thoughts around the four values his company had framed. [...]
Learning Leadership: Change Needed!
Traditional leadership learning programmes are in need of revision. In spite of a massive emphasis and investment in leadership education, the return on this investment has often disappointed. This in part can be explained by traditional models of developing leaders not keeping pace with the rapidity and complexity that characterize the context in which leaders [...]
Trust Matters
In a technological age of instant, easy and cheap communication speaking to one another has never been easier. Why, just in a few hours I am scheduled to be in a skype conference call that links Hong Kong, Boston and Durban! So although it has never been easier to connect, knowing who to connect with [...]
The Hidden Work Leaders Need To Do
Kurt Lewin’s well known maxim states: There is nothing so practical as a good theory. Most leaders I know, when it comes to leading people are somewhat thin when it comes to the theory side of things. Most lead others based on their own experience of having been led – where often the, ‘how not [...]
From the Balcony?
Ron Heifitz of Harvard makes the distinction between the ‘dance-floor’ and the ‘balcony’. For leaders, being on the dance-floor is often more inviting and comfortable than being on the balcony. Why? Well, it was on the dance-floor where they first got noticed; it is on the dance-floor where they excelled; it is on the dance-floor [...]
Keith in China
The 2010 Global Leaders Conference has been relocated to Beijing (from Shanghai) and promises to be the best yet. This will be the third edition and has seen this event grown from strength to strength. The conference brings together a diverse group of participants including those from both the corporate world as well as the [...]
SLI – Strategic Leadership Intelligence
The Strategic Leadership Intelligence programme is an exciting new initiative and collaboration between Graeme Codrington, Pete Laburn and Keith Coats. All of us are heavily invested in several current local and international leadership education programmes run through leading business schools; All of us are concerned that much of constitutes current leadership education is missing the [...]
The Inconvenient Truth for Leaders
You are not in control. What global warming is to Al Gore (and hopefully the rest of the planet), so is the issue of control to the leader. However the inconvenient truth is that control is an illusion. In its broadest sense the notion that we can control our lives is a fallacy. The harsh [...]
TomorrowToday
Keith is one of the co-founders of TomorrowToday, a consultancy with offices in South Africa and the United Kingdom. The company helps clients in four specific areas: Understanding the world around you Strategy development and execution Improving leader, team and talent engagement and performance Elevating customer experience and marketing performance Keith’s focus is on the [...]
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