23 May 2024

Richard Hodge

Do you count value or account for value? The difference is more than semantics…

7 May 2024

Richard Hodge

A great quote from Dr Margaret Wheatley helps us tie together the strands of value we’ve been discussing so far. Dr Wheatley says this:

“Leadership is a series of behaviours not a role for heroes.”

…and we’ve all met a few heroes, haven’t we?

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Richard Hodge

19 June 2020

17. Leaders Act Systemically

Richard Hodge

19 June 2020

Last week, racism led the news. This week, recession.

Our first recession in 29 years and there is now "no chance of avoiding a deep recession” [1]. I wonder whether negative economic growth for two successive quarters, or twelve, is the worst we expect to face?

Richard Hodge

14 May 2020

14. When leaders care systemically, they care about how they conceive and contribute value

Richard Hodge

14 May 2020

The value leaders count, counts.

When care is limited, leadership is a license to kill.

Fatal mistakes made by a doctor and a person dies; by engineers, hundreds die; by leaders or policy makers, thousands die.

Richard Hodge

7 May 2020

12. Leadership and Care

Richard Hodge

7 May 2020

Leadership and Care. On caring, Christian Madsbjerg (Sensemaking, 2017) writes:

“When you have a perspective – when you actually give a damn – you intuitively sense what’s important and what’s trivial. You can see what connects with what, and you know the data … that matter. Caring is the connective tissue that makes all things possible.