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Modes of Alignment #5 – Which mode are you in?

Do you take pride in hard work? Do you brag about working more than 50 hours a week? Do you use ToDo lists? Do you think that in order for things to happen, that you have to make them happen?If you answer yes to most or all, you’re in Push Mode.Do yo…

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Modes of Alignment #4 – PushmePullyou Mode

This mythical creature in Dr Doolittle provides a metaphor for how many leaders feel about leadership. They are in Push Mode for themselves, driving the agenda and encountering resistance of their ‘followers’ who have to be pulled, some suggest dra…

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Modes of Alignment #3 – Drift Mode

The stresses of Push Mode, always making things happen and forever coming up against obstacles and ‘time-wasters’, causes many people to fall into Drift Mode rather than Pull Mode.Drift Mode is quite different to Pull Mode, somewhat ‘New-Agey’ …

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Modes of Alignment #2 – Pull Mode

Pull Mode, unlike push mode, is about leadership and paying attention to growth and improvement.Rather than focusing attention on problems to be solved or fixed or overcome, in Pull Mode we take time to clearly envision our future and allow the goal to…

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Modes of Alignment #1 – Push Mode

There’s a wealth of evidence that having goals and setting them is an important process. And
that goals are best considered as performance goal…

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