Posts by Ross Swan

Moral leadership is an emerging conversation in leadership. It ties up with conscious leadership. Which is around how self-aware are leaders? In other words, to what extent do leaders consider their motivations, their interests, their serving, their own biases, their own strengths and weaknesses and act in a more conscious way. The morality part comes…

There often are, what we call magic moments, which in hindsight when we see them we realise they ended up derailing us. Can you share a bit on this? The main one is this whole perception of getting stuff done. Ticking off the tasks becomes a priority instead of focusing on the soft skills like interpersonal…

At Soul Inspired Leadership we speak with leaders who lead from within and let the environment reflect them rather than the leader reflecting the environment. On that note how have you taken the current environment and challenges as a leader? Having to work from home was a massive transition. Most of us have not worked…

What do you mean when you talk about brilliant jerks? A billion jerk is somebody that is a high achiever. Usually very bright because they’re brilliant in their area of expertise. They give big results for companies because they’re very driven, but it causes a lot of turnover and stress in the company. It’s because…

This series is where I discuss various aspects of leadership. All leaders are managers. Yet not all managers are leaders. Managers who aren’t leaders manage processes. In essence you gather that information from subject matter experts, collate it and put that together. The next step for a manager is then to implement. This is where…