12 factors pulling you away from being intentional Bright, Bold & Board leaders.

Just when this is really needed to lead in the current business landscape.?

Leading an intended Business and Digital transformation through ongoing disruption has become the reality for most leaders at this time.?

It’s not for the feint hearted. Or the easily distracted.?

This article is relevant for Digital Transformation experts, accountable Executives and Operating leaders, and the Governing leaders on the Board or Steering body.?

I have never met a business leadership group that intended to be MAD (Meek, Abdicated, Dull) rather than BBB (Bright Sparks, Bold Executives, Discerning Board).

You choose to lead in an environment with a lot of pull to not truly lead. The pull to not truly lead is like being influenced by a gravitational force - if we don’t push against it with intention, we just go where it pulls us.

This does not always serve us or others!

Whether in a Boardroom, Exec suite or lunchroom, the observation always comes up that there are increasing distractions in our increasingly connected digital lives.

The more accomplished leaders, with strong intentions for their business, look at this with me, the more acknowledgment that the pull away from the Bright, Bold & Board is increasing, and we are all susceptible.?

“The Deep Work Hypothesis: The ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare at exactly the same time it is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy.”

~ Cal Newport

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“The double meaning of the word ‘wired’. It means both being in a manic, hyper mental state, and being online.”

~ Johann Hari

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Let’s take a summary look at 12 deeper factors pulling away from intention, utilising the extensive up-to-date research and insights of Johann Hari, author of ‘Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention’.?

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1. The increase in Speed, Switching and Filtering (picture yourself on your devices, or perhaps your teenager).
2. The Crippling of our Flow States (picture pigeons trained to desperately crave arbitrary rewards as the dominant psychology versus the deeper focus of artists/ athletes etc in flow).
3. The rise of physical and mental exhaustion (reflect on your sleep patterns and depth).
4. The collapse of sustained reading (picture browsing the net, scrolling your media feed).
5. The disruption of mind-wandering (reflect on when you last had space for daydreaming?!)
6. The rise of technology that can track and manipulate you (reflect how you know software is designed to activate psychological loops and how connected you are).
7. The rise of cruel optimism (picture that you alone won’t be enough to shift your personal habits with technology).
8. The surge in stress and how it triggers vigilance (picture our brains and the primitive areas activated when stressed).
9. Our deteriorating diets (picture the modern diet and reflect on the quality of the fuel for our body and minds).
10. Rising pollution (picture the pollution you are aware of and imagine the pollution that you are not that makes its way into our food and breathing).
11. The rise of ADHD and how we are responding to it (picture reacting with treatments on a topic that is not yet fully understood).
12. The confinement of our children, both physically and psychologically (picture exploring, creating without guidance, learning by trial and error versus always being in controlled environments).

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[Note the factors are Johann’s, the summaries in brackets are mine, and if you want to go deeper please go direct to the source.]

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What are your views on all of this?

How might these factors be shifting the environment you lead within?

How might these factors be impacting your own Organisational Change-fitness?

What are you doing to lead your intended transformation through this ongoing disruption?

What can you do to lift your Fitness for Business Transformation?

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“Over a long timeline, the bottleneck is usually attention not ability."

~ James Clear

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Bernie

Grow your unique Self. Lift the trajectory. Lead Disruption with Grace?

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Are you a Bright Spark, bright with a spark for today and the future, seeking reconnection with what matters and the capability to lead with intention without being limited by your past, even if the world around you is constantly disrupting?

Are you a Bold Executive Leader seeking shifts in yourself and your organisation’s outcomes without compromising relationships, self-care, and meaning in work, even if the conundrums are mounting and deep down you doubt this is possible across your team?

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Are you a Board Director seeking to maintain or achieve industry leadership through periods of disruption, without disrupting shareholder confidence or Executive commitment, even if others in your industry say it is not possible?

Where do you need to elevate and integrate?

Bernie is known for building capability and confidence in leaders who need to transform organisations that are continually reshaping to survive and thrive.

His career began in whole of enterprise and cross-organisation shifts, followed by 10 years in Business Transformation Diagnostics, Training, and Mentoring across Australia and SE Asia.?He currently works with leaders who are focused on accelerated development and re-imagination of industry value systems. He loves working with the Bright, the Bold and the Board to successfully transition to the next phase, creating a positive ripple effect.

In 2020 Bernie authored Traction: Building Change-fit Leadership Teams.

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