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Browse articles from the Leadership Lens - our monthly column for InDaily

Leadership Lens

Leadership Lens is the Leaders Institute's regular opinion series published in partnership with InDaily SA.

Each article explores an important leadership challenge, emerging trend or timely issue affecting leaders, organisations, and communities.

Written by experienced leaders and subject-matter experts, Leadership Lens provides thoughtful perspectives on the ideas shaping leadership today.

Browse the collection below and discover practical insights to help you lead more effectively in an increasingly complex world.


What's on offer?

Leadership Lens has featured articles from some of South Australia's most prominent leaders, discussing issues that they're knowledgeable and often passionate about. Take a look through the links below, and see what authors or topics catch your eye.
 

  • Building trust in the public sector - Erma Ranieri
    Building an innovative public sector starts with leaders who invest in their people and unlock the full potential of the workforce to shape South Australia’s future, writes the Commissioner for Public Sector Employment, Erma Ranieri.
     
  • Wisdom of Aboriginal culture in leadership - Nicole Clinch
    Some of the most relevant guidance does not come from new frameworks, but from the world’s oldest continuing cultures, writes SAACCON Deputy CEO Nicole Clinch.
     
  • Purpose isn’t fading, but people (and leaders) are carrying more - Shane Farley
    Leadership has never had a greater opportunity to positively influence engagement, retention and wellbeing across the not-for-profit sector, writes Community Business Bureau CEO Shane Farley.
     
  • Leadership that starts with giving - Kathryn House AM
    The leaders I most admire have a clear sense of self, writes Impact100 South Australia chair Kathryn House AM. They understand their strengths, values and limits, but consistently direct that self-awareness towards something larger than their own advancement.
     
  • Leadership turns ideas into action - Her Excellency the Honourable Frances Adamson AC
    The most effective leaders are the ones who listen to their counterparts and think deeply about the future, writes Her Excellency the Honourable Frances Adamson AC, Governor of South Australia.
     
  • Three key capabilities for a complex new world - Dr Josie McLean
    Dr Josie McLean asks if exercising leadership is really about the outcomes you and a group of people can influence, then what else is required today?
     
  • Leadership of the Mind and State - Bridget Hogg
    The skill of managing mindsets and emotional experience is one of the great tools of leadership, writes Development at Work Australia GM Bridget Hogg.
     
  • Why leadership demands a new story - Joanna Giannes
    Leadership that can draw from hopeful narrative is vital, writes South Australian leadership educator Joanna Giannes.
     
  • The Culture Gym - Paul Mayers
    Healthy culture doesn’t happen by accident, writes Mayers Consulting director Paul Mayers. It requires regular commitment, a shared understanding of what ‘healthy’ looks like, and the willingness to feel a bit uncomfortable while you’re working on it.
     
  • Observations from a teacher turned executive recruiter - Andrew Reed
    The best leaders are alacritous, not aggressive, writes Hender Consulting general manager Andrew Reed.
     
  • Why leadership skills still matter - Sarah Cutbush
    CEO of the Leaders Institute of South Australia Sarah Cutbush explains why the need for leadership “has never been greater”.