Understanding the 8 Leadership Loopholes
If you understood how your organisation is losing behavioural value every day, what would you tackle first? Where would you…
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It is time for a Flipping Manifesto!
Say Goodbye to the Slow Manifesto Originally, I had imagined a Slow Leadership Movement - one that would focus on…
What makes a question useful?
What is it with questions? When we are kids, we are great at asking them - “why is the sky…
A Field Guide to Cognitive Diversity
This company was (rightly) very proud of its diversity record; it was an organisational powerhouse, with a strong culture, working…
Alone at the top: why CEO’s struggle with loneliness and Imposter Syndrome
There is a blessing and a curse to being in the most senior seats of any business. The golden opportunity…
What can cockroaches tell us about performance anxiety?
When the American social psychologist, Robert Zajonc (1923 - 2008) started experimenting with cockroaches in 1965, he got them to…
In search of leadership clarity
What connects an affordable but dangerous car, a fizzy drink and a mobile phone? The answer is wrapped up in…
What’s so super, hero?
You can’t get away from superheroes at the moment. They are everywhere - and love them or hate them, they…
We need to get deliberate about leadership
What connects three sibling chess champions, the world’s largest car manufacturer and a device known as the Blue Box? And…
8 ways to enhance your leadership believability
Believability goes way beyond authenticity; it is a sustained balance of influence, authority, credibility, trust and reputation. And it is…
The Power of Passionate Leadership
I have heard a lot of talk recently about the need for more passionate leadership in business. More “joie de…
Collaborative Leadership
A tale of two shipwrecks: leadership when the worst happens. In 1864, two storm-ravaged ships were hurled onto the unforgiving…
8 leadership behaviours to prepare for a strategic pivot
It’s probably fair to say that most businesses don’t see themselves as dinosaurs. And it's also probably safe to assume…
Considering Leadership?
Let’s be honest, it is very easy to get switched off by the idea of leadership. We experience too many…
Search for the hero inside
In business, politics and even sport we are drawn to the more charismatic, the seemingly more confident, the more gregarious,…
Shiny happy people – the benefits of positive emotions
How emotionally aware are you? I invite you to spend a minute or so thinking about the last 24 hours.…