Jim Bennett - HOT Leadership

There's fascinating research coming out now about the value of your social network. In the book Connected, it talks about how your behaviour subconsciously influences your friends, their friends, and their friends' friends. Mirror neurons. Emotional contagion. A lot of scientific phenomenon speaks to this. The people you surround yourself with dramatically influence your beliefs, because their thi...

If you’re human, you’re going to face fear. Developing resilience and hardiness in the face of fear is what iconic human beings do. It's what A-players do. It's what ZeLeaders do. It's about extending your Safe Operating Envelope. We share a few ideas to cure fear: Practice bravery training. Release your attachment to outcomes. Hang with heroes. Embrace the mess. The things you now find easy were...

We continue our journey about being a Game Changer. Last week we explored the acronymns: BIW - Best In World OAD - Obsessive Attention to Detail. TCM - Total Craft Mastery The fourth is ABD. Always Be Daring. The 95% of society that are in the cult of average consistently do what's most easy. They read the easy books. They study the easy courses. They hang out with the easy friends. They live the...

You want to be a game-changer? Forget about getting through the next 7 days and start asking yourself this. “How can I live a life that will influence the coming generation? Starting today, what do I need to do to do work that wows, to make a contribution not just to my community, but to humanity?” “How can I lead my field? How can I be the Michelangelo of my industry? How can I be an incredible h...

How can we work well with others, so we cooperate and collaborate in ways that combine our individual insights, ideas, and inspirations to solve complex problems and create new value to society. Over the past 30 years my professional work has focused on helping organisations create cultures of safety, innovation, agility, and adaptiveness that unlocks the combined wisdom required for continuously...

Here are some tips to help you create explosive productivity so you get big things done (and make your life really matter). For you to become the most productive person that you know. Simple stratefies from many years of personal experience and from researching massively productive people like Stephen KIng, John Grisham and Thomas Edison.... HOT Leadership

There’s a ton of anxiety and outright fear in the world at the moment. I won’t recite all the problems. Because I’m sure you already know them. And yet......as humans we are built to survive, hardwired to continue and made to rise. The economic chaos will eventually lead to a new era of prosperity - though this will take a long time to reach. And life will inevitably become smoother again - though...

This week we are exploring the principles of Power Meeting to optimize the health and well-being of individuals and organizations. 6 Principles: 1. Avoid large meetings 2. leave a meeting if you're no adding value. 3. Avoid the chain of command and communicate directly with colleagues. 4. Be 'clear not clever.' 5. Ditch frequent meeting - don't waste people's valuable time. 6. Use common sense. A...

The Real Values - what does it mean to be true to ourselves? What are your daily behaviors that truly reflect who you are and that you live by? What are the acceptable behaviors that you, your organization considers as an acceptable standard? How do we understand at a deep level what they are? We use reflective inquiry to explore them... Behavioral dictionary example: https://1drv.ms/b/s !AtMRRgiU...

"Leadership is the capacity of a human community to shape its future” as described by Peter Senge. Then anyone who takes responsibility for playing their part in creating a resilient future-fit organization is contributing to Leadership So how can we play our own part most effectively? By cultivating a 2D3D mindset is a pivotal place to start with. An individual with a 2D3D mindset operates in lin...

This week we are "going with the flow" and embracing our zest, our energy towards our goal(s). Last week we explored being Stuck - "clearing the blocks" and releasing the barriers to enable us to get back on track. Going with the flow is a little different. Going with the flow is not generally seen as a problem. In some ways that is our objective - to go with the flow at all times, making decision...

Being Stuck - at times in our lives we can find ourselves having a feeling of being "Stuck", unable to move, unable to make a decision. It's a bit like being stuck in sand or mud - difficult to make the next step. Words are so powerful, how about 're-framing', re-naming our situation and see what that sounds, feels and looks like. What does, instead of being stuck, saying I am uncertain about my n...

Every single emotion we experience in every single moment of our life conditions the very substance and wiring of our emotional body. Hence, the quality and purity of our emotional nature is directly determined by the emotions we express. We literally build our emotional body by the emotions we go through. Let's explore how we can choose to change our automatic reactions to "people pushing our but...

It's easy to get caught up in the "thick and thin" of things. It can prove to be seductive that you spend your finest hours climbing mountains that turn out to be "the wrong ones"... The authentic heart leaders concentrate on the few priorities that will deliver their greatest aspirations. HOT Leadership

We live in strange and gorgeous times. Tons of challenges. Dazzling opportunities. I have distilled 10 of the most valuable and practical ZeLeadership insights to leverage these times and help you fly... HOT Leadership

The art of moving from Force to Power. The fruit of realising that you are no one, have nothing and are going nowhere, are the shifts that occur naturally in all walks of your life. The gradual, yet sometimes sudden, occurrence of those shifts are also signs you are moving in an 'accurate' direction.. When we attempt to maintain the idea in the minds of others that we are someone significant, perh...

The practices and the art of becoming real. There are seven invisible creations within our consciousness every day: 1. Thoughts 2. Feelings 3. Evaluations 4. Decisions 5. Actions 6. Memories 7. Habits Each is shaped primarily by who we believe we are, what we believe we have and where we believe we are going or want to go..... HOT Leadership

How do our insights translate into the practicalities of daily life? We certainly don't go around telling people I am 'no one' and I have nothing for obvious reasons. These realizations happen silently and subtly within our consciousness..As they do, you continue to play your role(s) as you have up to now. That doesn't mean being cold, separated or distant. It means outcomes matter less to you, pe...

Consciousness - going nowhere and being present in the NOW. Being present in the NOW is and Art. It's the art of being present in every moment of our existence, being grounded in reality. Have you ever noticed how your anticipation of and event is far greater than the realisation? You imagine how great the holiday is going to be, to find that it didn't meet all your expectations. Your imagination...

Today we explore the concept of having nothing and the art of being free. Have you ever noticed how every 'thing' and everyone comes and goes? No 'thing' stays forever. No one stays forever. Coming and going are the the primary and most natural patterns of change in our Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) World... The illusion of 'possessing' things and people originates within our c...

Cultivating Character is not part of a process formula, it's not a skill set that you learn and then add to your armory. We are all different in that we have different ways of using the power of our consciousness when it's restored to its true and accurate nature. That's the key - restore the awareness of your true nature and the ability to to express the appropriate character traits follow... nat...

Have you ever had the sense of watching yourself doing something? Even while you're speaking, even when you're thinking. Somehow 'you' are watching your self speking, thinking and doing. The one who is watching, who is aware of being the watcher, is you. The real you. The authentic you. Not the you that you 'think' or 'say' you are. When you cultivate 'observational awareness' you begin to realise...

The Natural Expression of Authenticity are not traits or abilities that are unique to a few. They are not skills or even competencies. They are the natural characteristics of someone who is being authentic while in the presence of others. They are not 'learned' - so you can't be trained to demonstrate such attributes in an genuine manner. The emerge naturally form a person who is being their natur...

Authentic Leadership - many of us have been consciously or unconsciously wearing a mask. We've been pretenders, pretending most of our lives. It's about what we are all taught to do. It seems that only a few catch-on to the reality that almost everyone is pretending to be someone that are not. It's killing us and killing the world. But we can't see it! It's only on realizing your own pretentiousne...

Leadership. Love that word. Makes me think of Gandhi. Edison. Mozart and Beckham. Bono and Bieber (grin) It’s a word I’ve passionately built around for the past 30 years of my life. Empowering so-called 'ordinary people' that they are destined to lead. And create. And contribute. And be their true selves. These are strange and gorgeous times. Tons of challenges. Dazzling possibilities. I want you...