Gary Lloyd - Gardeners Not Mechanics

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Gary Lloyd has led organizational change initiatives for nearly thirty years. Over the last decade, he has also helped professionals make personal and career changes in his role as a member of Warwick Business School's Executive Coaching Panel and as a steering committee member for its mentoring program. He spent most of his career in banking and financial markets. However, through his consulting and coaching work, he has also worked with clients in manufacturing, construction, logistics, food processing, and IT services.

Learn More About Gary's Work

• Book: Gardeners Not Mechanics: How to cultivate change at work
• Website: Gardeners Not Mechanics

Quotes From Gary's Book

• "The world of work is an ecosystem of interdependent organisations, groups, and individuals. So, if you want to make a sustainable change at work, you are more likely to succeed if you approach your change as a gardener, not a mechanic."
• "Mechanics rely on predictability. They assume that the same inputs produce the same outputs, time after time. A car, for example, will perform as predicted on a tarmac road."
• "Gardeners know that their environment is unpredictable, with much of it outside their control. Gardeners, therefore, take small steps towards a bigger goal. They experiment to find out what works and what doesn't and continually adjust to what they find out."

Resources Mentioned In This Episode

• Books: Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment & Thinking Fast & Slow 
• Books: How Emotions Are Made & Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain 
• Book: Livewired 
• Book: Think Again 
• Podcast: Sideways
• Documentary: The Mole Agent

About The International Leadership Association (ILA)

• The ILA was created in 1999 to bring together professionals with a keen interest in the study, practice, and teaching of leadership. Today, ILA is the largest worldwide community committed to leadership scholarship, development, and practice. 

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