Tag: leadership
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Are You Busy, or Are You Delivering?
“Busyness is not the same as productivity.” It’s an uncomfortable truth in many organisations. We reward activity more than impact. We confuse full calendars with effective leadership. We treat responsiveness as value. Somewhere along the way, the measure of success became how stretched someone is, not what they actually deliver. I’ve lived this. I’ve fallen…
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What You Don’t Know Is Leading You
“Leadership isn’t just about making decisions. It’s about knowing what you don’t know.” It sounds obvious. But in practice, it’s one of the hardest things any leader faces: the limits of their own perspective. We often define leadership through clarity, confidence, and decisiveness. But clarity without curiosity becomes tunnel vision. And decisiveness, without reflection, becomes…
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Are You Leading Through Clarity or Assumption?
“Most workplace conflicts come from assumptions, not actual disagreement.” It’s rarely the big issues that derail teams. It’s the quiet ones. The unclear messages. The things left unsaid. The assumptions. In my experience, teams rarely fall out because they disagree. They fall out because they didn’t realise they were never aligned in the first place.…
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Command vs. Influence: Leading Without Authority
“You can’t pull rank when there’s no rank to pull.” That’s the reality in volunteer settings. Increasingly, it is the same in many modern workplaces too. There’s a difference between being in charge and being followed. Between holding authority and holding trust. Between command and influence. And the further you move into voluntary, community-based, or…
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Start Here: Why InterThread Exists
We live in a world full of big ideas, siloed sectors, and systems that often don’t work for the people they’re meant to serve. I’ve spent my career in the spaces in between — not just working across different roles, but across different missions. That’s where InterThread comes in. This blog is where I reflect…
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