We are a third of the way through the year! How does that make you feel? In this solosode I’m confronting the lingering sense of malaise that I’m noticing this year. It’s being sustained by ongoing uncertainty and as leaders we need to have strategies to navigate through difficult times by assessing both the known and the unknown. In this episode I explore three leadership truisms that will help you balance risk and opportunity with a sense of possibility - because even when times are tough, it’s important to expand our leadership perspective and remember we are all part of the bigger, beautiful picture!
The leadership pendulum swings between pessimism and optimism
Why you should listen: leadership values are the bedrock of positive change
Navigating the future with a clear set of leadership principles
We explore a leadership mindset that looks for opportunities
Confronting brutal facts is a leadership priority
Take an inventory of your systems and the behaviours they support
Seek diverse leadership perspectives and expand your outlook
Key moments
1:00 Personal update: connection, comedy and writing progress
3:30 The leadership pendulum swings with uncertainty
4:20 Self-aware leadership principles
5:00 AI reality check
5:50 Establishing values to protect humanity and the planet
6:55 Looking for opportunities - previous guests help show the way
8:55 Three things to remember as a leader
10:40 How we got through uncertainty - and will do again
13:30 Three leadership truisms that come into play
14:00 Map your systems
16:40 Worldview shapes our responses
18:50 Pause to appreciate the wonder of life
20:45 Coming up on the Zoe Routh Leadership Podcast - what does no hierarchy look like?
21:15 Last call for May’s Fit For The Future events
22:00 Rate, review and thank you for listening!
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About your host, Canberra leadership expert Zoë Routh:
Zoë Routh is a leadership futurist, podcaster, and multiple award-winning author. She works with leaders and teams to navigate future horizons.
She has worked with individuals and teams internationally and in Australia since 1987. From wild Canadian rivers to the Australian Outback, and the Boardroom jungles, Zoë is an adventurist! She facilitates strategy and culture sessions with audacious teams.
Zoë's fourth leadership book, People Stuff - Beyond Personality Problems: An advanced handbook for leadership, won the Book of the Year at the Australian Business Book Awards in 2020. Her fifth book is a near future science fiction dystopian novel, The Olympus Project.
Zoë is the producer of the Zoë Routh Leadership Podcast, dedicated to asking “What if…?” and sharing Big Ideas on the Future of Leadership.
Zoë is an outdoor adventurist and enjoys telemark skiing, has run six marathons, is a one-time belly-dancer, has survived cancer, and loves hiking in the high country. She is married to a gorgeous Aussie and is a self-confessed dark chocolate addict.