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The Leadership Lesson the Springboks Are Teaching the World A Leadership Growth Coaching Question to Start Before you read any further, sit with this question for a moment: If you had to choose between a highly skilled person with questionable character, and a less experienced person with unshakeable integrity, who would you build your team around? Most leaders answer quickly. But most leaders also hire, promote and reward based primarily on competence. The Springboks are showing us there is...

When your memories exceed your dreams, your end is near. But when your dreams exceed your memories, you are a pioneer.” As John C. Maxwell teaches about this, he reminds us that what you focus on expands. There are seasons in leadership where it’s tempting to live off past wins. Past successes. Past stories. Past comfort. But leadership was never meant to be lived in reverse. When we focus on vision, growth expands. Possibility expands. Courage expands. Pioneers are not people with perfect...

When my children were babies and toddlers, I spent a lot of time on the floor; I loved the carpet in my sons room. We spent hours playing, building, rolling around, I was determined to see the world from their perspective. (Often looking for things that could potentially fall or things that could hurt them). What I didn’t realise then was that I was learning one of the greatest lessons in leadership. To really connect, you sometimes have to change your position to change your perspective. ...