Getting beyond the unpredictable It would be difficult to dispute that we live in extraordinary and unpredictable times. In just six months two national votes have turned the world, or at least our view of it, on its head. In this mix of upheaval, and our bewilderment, is the failure of a tried and testedRead more
Time to sit up, wake up, pay attention… If the results of the recent seminal national votes (in the US and UK) show us anything, for me it’s that as leaders it’s time for us to sit up, wake up and pay attention. To really become aware and conscious of what’s going on in ourRead more
Which you shows up when you want to hide? Little sets the great leaders apart from the merely good than their ability to really show up and be present, and leaderly, no matter what has happened. The most quoted lines from Kipling’s ‘If’ poem come to mind here…’If you can meet with triumph and disaster,Read more
The deeper values of transformation The pressure on us as leaders to effect transformation is huge, especially now. And most often when it comes to the tangible elements of transformation we can tend to understand these more easily, can get hold of them and grapple them into their new shape – the infrastructure, the organisationRead more
Workers name their price Of all the workplace changes we’re likely to face in the next decade or two, worker power may well be the biggest and, likely, most challenging. Why? Well for all the continuing trends around globalisation, dispersed workforces, remote-working, ever-increasing use of technology and the advance of AI in mass production, etRead more
Pointing the finger at leadership accountability One of the risks of leadership in my experience is that we can become overly focused on the changes that others need to make – our team, an individual in another department, our colleagues or the ‘front-line’. Undoubtedly all valid observations and yet if we consider one of theRead more
Obama, Thatcher and a leadership feast You may have noticed that question often posed to the celebrity interviewee about who’d they’d most like to have dinner with and why. Usually it’s an element of a formulaic interview slot in the print media and a bit of fun. The point behind the question though is aboutRead more