Tools for Leadership in Times of Change
In a time of change, everything can seem urgent. Thinking about your purpose and values can seem like an unnecessary distraction. But investing your time to find your purpose and 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 →
Sigmund Freud said that bad things happen to us in our childhoods and these upset us when we get older. But Carl Jung said, hang on a minute — everything Continue Reading →
We have seen how the key attitude that defines leadership is the ability to see a problem as an opportunity. This is the attitude that enabled Alexander Fleming to turn a ‘failed’ Continue Reading →
When we are children we learn how the world works: we test what happens when we drop our toy; we learn how people respond when we laugh or cry. And Continue Reading →
Inner Leadership recommends meditation as one of four ways to deepen our connection with ourselves and so increase our ability to remain calm and focused at all times. Now a Continue Reading →
The Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was born into a relatively modest family on a provincial island, far from the centres of power. Somehow he managed to become one of the greatest political and military Continue Reading →
To succeed in a time of change, you need to do new things in new ways. The best way to make that happen is with inspiration. Because, as Steve Jobs 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 →
A time of change forces us to take decisions based on little information and without knowing how things are going to turn out. One way to do this is by applying Continue Reading →
There was once a farmer in ancient China who owned a horse. “You are so lucky!” his neighbours told him, “to have a horse to pull the cart for you.” Continue Reading →
In a fast-changing world, our old assumptions might no longer be true. There are eight common ways this can happen and the second of these is called ‘shoulds’. Shoulds happen whenever we Continue Reading →