Have you ever wondered if everyone uses Generative AI for the same reasons you do? A new study from filtered.com of the top 100 GenAI uses sees some surprises at the top, some favourites well down the list and a selection of uses that beg the question: What planet are...
Is Making a Difference Enough for You?
Here's a question that might interest you: Is making a difference enough? Yes, it's a good thing to make a difference, to help someone or something in some way. But we must also ask ourselves: is it enough relative to what we are capable of? Will we satisfy ourselves...
How to Sharpen Up Your Purpose-Driven Leadership Strengths
I look back on my decade or so in corporate team leadership roles with both fondness and trepidation. I did some things well and some not so well. If I'd been able to articulate my purpose as well as my leadership strengths instead of relying on my intuition, I...
What if you sell products that are legal, but cause harm?
As a purpose-driven or purpose-curious leader, what would you do if your business sold a product line, such as tobacco, that is legal but proven to cause harm? Let's say you're a supermarket executive and your stores sell cigarettes. It's a small part of your overall...
Three Foundational Characteristics of Purpose-Driven Organisations
By Phil Preston & Carolyn Butler-Madden What is Success? In today's dynamic business landscape, the drive for business success goes beyond mere profitability. It encompasses a deeper ethos—a higher purpose that not only guides organisations but also galvanises...
Finding Your Purpose as a Leader
When change is omnipresent, your leadership effectiveness is amplified, which is why it helps to have an acute understanding of your purpose as a leader. How do we define this type of ‘purpose’ and why is it so important? How can you uncover it and create a plan of...
Developing Resilience and Growth for Leaders and Teams in 2024
Developing strong foundations for resilience and growth skills will help your leaders and teams deliver results in 2024, and this article outlines an effective way of doing just that. Have you found that some of your people need more resilience skills...
Fresh Thinking for Team Success in 2023
With an economy that could go forwards or backwards, mounting global challenges and ongoing geopolitical tensions, the only real certainty in 2023 is uncertainty! Fresh thinking is required to make the most of the risks and opportunities it presents. So, how do you...
Can you help your people gain purpose without resignation risk?
If you help an employee gain a greater sense of purpose, could they have an epiphany and leave? They might, however you should also weigh up the consequences of doing nothing. A line manager recently told me that he saw inaction as a greater risk, where people lack...
Making Quiet Quitting Obsolete
How do you make quiet quitting obsolete? Being a purpose specialist I guess you’d expect me to say it’s all about clarity and implementation of purpose, and you’d be right! When purpose is well executed it leads to energising and exciting work cultures that take quiet...
Busting 5 Myths About Finding Purpose in Your Work and Life
Are you interested in finding purpose in your work and life? The disruptions of late may have prompted you to reflect on why you do what you do, and it's unsettling if you're drifting off course. A business leader I interviewed recently noted: “If you’re not aligning...
What does Ash Barty’s retirement have to do with purpose?
It’s hard to identify a public figure – sporting or otherwise – who Australian’s love more than Ash Barty. She role models hard work, honesty, humility, integrity, transparency and the list goes on. Yes, she has many outstanding tournament titles to her name, but it’s...












