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The Trick to Trust
Leading through a crisis requires bold decisions. Which require stakeholder support. Which requires trust.
Courageous Leadership
Courageous leadership is desperately needed across the globe and no one understands courage better than Dr Brené Brown.
The Secret Ingredients to Successful Innovation…
The sheer scale of systemic ‘brokenness’ we find ourselves in requires us all to dig deep and find new and better ways of doing things. In other words, we need innovation now more than ever before.
Leadership, Purpose and Ambiguity
The greatest gift of leadership is the ability to create positive impact at scale. It’s a gift, but it’s also a sometimes an overwhelming…
Leadership Branding for Differentiation
Most companies fail to leverage one of their most compelling and distinguishable assets – their leadership. Business today is not about B2B or B2C…
Ten Things Every CEO Needs to Know
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. Mark Twain In…
The Economics of Purpose
Let’s start with the facts: The economic costs of the lack of purpose exceeds £130bn a year Purpose improves financial performance by…
Radical Honesty and Crisis Communications
If you had $658 billion at risk would you make a plan? With two thirds of companies unprepared for a crisis and a far…
Dear boss, you are the problem
In an age of hyper competitiveness, global economic volatility and socio-political uncertainty, you would think companies would go back to the drawing board to…
Time to ReAlign
Cultures shift in unsettled times and new normals require new norms. Our ReAlign programme will help leaders to evolve their company’s culture to be fit-for-purpose for the post-Covid world.
The New Normal Is Here
The normal is here whether you see it or not. Understand how expectations have shifted to secure your reputation.
The Good. The Bad. And the Happy.
It’s not all doom and gloom. Employee engagement rates have soared as organisations adopt people-centric practices.
Leadership in a Crisis
It’s during the moments of crisis that your leadership abilities are truly put to the test.
CEO Branding Is Here
It’s a Shovel partners with The Ascendant Group to bring the world’s leading CEO branding services to Sub Saharan Africa.
Reputation and Purpose
Having spent the last week in conferences – one at GIBS on strategic communications and reputation and then the inaugural Africa Shared Value Summit…