Tools for Leadership in Times of Change
Achieving our goals in a churning world requires very different skills from achieving the same outcomes in a stable environment. What are those skills and how can we acquire them? One Continue Reading →
Knowing our purpose helps us to succeed in times of change. Living in line with that purpose also brings us extra focus and energy and even changes our genes so that Continue Reading →
This short film from 2014 describes how Russia’s President Putin (and others) have deliberately used disinformation and fake news to undermine people’s perception and understanding of the world. As the film explains, Continue Reading →
Mark Twain famously said: “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” Harvard Business Review recently published an Continue Reading →
Sigmund Freud said that sometimes the memories of things that happened to us in our childhoods can return to mess up our lives when we get older. But for Carl Continue Reading →
A time of change can sometimes bring us unwanted emotions — things like frustration, anger, fear, and sadness. When this happens our first response might often be to want those emotions Continue Reading →
In a time of change, when everything seems urgent, spending time to clarify your purpose and values might seem like a distraction. But we’ve already seen how getting clear on Continue Reading →
In a time of change, new distractions keep arising all the time. Think of what has happened during only the past month!! Social media and the 24/7 news cycle make Continue Reading →
It’s all very well talking about ‘purpose’ and ‘values’ but we all have deadlines to meet, bills to pay, and coronavirus to avoid. Can we really live our lives with 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 it increases our risk of inflammatory Continue Reading →