Tools for Leadership in Times of Change
Some people believe that in order to have leaders you must also have followers. Inner Leadership disagrees. We believe that: True leaders create more leaders, not followers. Followers are dependent — they need to Continue Reading →
In the short time since Inner Leadership was first published we have seen many unexpected changes: North Korea has emerged as a long range nuclear power (and then offered to give up Continue Reading →
When pianist Keith Jarrett arrived at the Köln (Cologne) opera house in 1975 he found the wrong piano had been set up for him. It was an old, practice piano — Continue Reading →
When so much around us is changing it becomes important for us to be the source of our own stability. Spending time in nature is one of the four ways Continue Reading →
Another form of distorted thinking (or “mis-blink“) people can easily fall into during times of change is when we mistake our feelings for truth. This happens when we imagine that Continue Reading →
A time of change can make our lives seem more difficult. But it also brings us opportunities. Realising this comes in three stages. The first stage is to realise that the world Continue Reading →
Whether we like it or not, every significant change in our lives comes with an accompanying psychological and emotional transition. Some of these are small, others large. And in a Continue Reading →
If you want to create something new in the world, your first task is to inspire people: to teach them to long for your project to happen. As the pilot and poet Continue Reading →
In 2007, Professors John Cacioppo and Steve Cole discovered that feeling lonely alters people’s genes: it reduces our ability to fight off viruses and increases our risk of inflammatory diseases such Continue Reading →
Once we have found the ten types of opportunity that might exist in any situation we then need to choose a way forward. Peter Drucker was an author and consultant whose thinking Continue Reading →
Steve Jobs was an imperfect human being like the rest of us. But during his short life he managed to achieve more of the goals he set himself than many Continue Reading →
In a changing world we can easily make false assumptions. One of the most common types is called ‘extreme thinking’ or ‘blinkered thinking’. Blinkered or extreme thinking happens when we see the Continue Reading →