Bras are key to future leadership I don’t know if you’ve noticed but we are seeing a growing focus on women in the workplace – well women in all aspects of life in fact. For those who think I’m just a bit late coming to the emancipation revolution, I would argue that we are havingRead more
The assumption that builds trust Day in, day out we make assumptions and judgements about the situations and particularly people we encounter – those we know and those we don’t. We’re constructing their story as part of our own. Sometimes this can be helpful. Often, though, this filling in of the blanks can be prettyRead more
The potent force of Purpose Having spent a lot of time over many years exploring and working with my own personal sense of Purpose as well as that for the business I run it feels like it’s very much part of my DNA. There is an ‘is-ness’ quality about it if you will. It existsRead more
Handcuffed by perspective? I was deeply struck the other day when I read an anecdote (shared by Otto Scharmer an esteemed professor at MIT) in which he described the following: During the 90’s a number of senior corporate executives from one of the car giants in the US went to visit one of the JapaneseRead more
Corporate change – straight line or zig-zag? Though change is happening all the time and all around us we tend to really start paying attention when the issue is burning and there’s an urgency to make improvements. At this point we’re probably looking for a neat solution that will define a step-by-step approach to theRead more