Tools for Leadership in Times of Change
Becoming antifragile is not just about learning to cope with change it’s about using change to become stronger, so that every setback, as well as every success, clarifies our intentions, Continue Reading →
They say a diamond is just a piece of charcoal that has learned to handle stress exceptionally well. Inner Leadership is a book that shows us how we too Continue Reading →
In his most recent book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, historian Yuval Noah Harari talks about the disruptions that are coming from technology, politics, religion, immigration, terrorism, and war. Continue Reading →
If you want to use change to become stronger you can’t just read these blogs. You also have to practise them. After all, you cannot learn to swim by reading a Continue Reading →
It’s all very well talking about ‘purpose’ and ‘values’ but we all have bills to pay and deadlines to meet. Can we really live our lives with ‘purpose’ and ‘meaning’? Two Continue Reading →
A very Happy New Year to all of you and very a warm welcome to all our new subscribers. The Churning, Inner Leadership provides a framework and a practical set 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 →
The brains of our ancestors evolved to notice change because change might mean one of three things: food, sex, or death. When so much of our world is changing, all Continue Reading →
Whenever we travel by plane, every pre-flight safety check tells us exactly the same thing: “In the event of an emergency, oxygen masks will drop down from above your head. Continue Reading →
We are living through a time of extraordinary change. And like the exponential spread of a Covid-19, the pace of that change is accelerating. Each change on its own is Continue Reading →
We are living through a time of change. And, whether we’re aware of it or not, every change that happens to us brings a psychological or emotional impact. These psychological or emotional impacts Continue Reading →
If you want to succeed in a time of change you’re probably going to need to do new things in new ways. And the best way of convincing yourself, and Continue Reading →
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 →
At the core of becoming antifragile is the ability to take good decisions when facts are in short supply and the outcome is difficult to predict. Our key to unlocking this ability Continue Reading →
After we have grounded ourselves and made clearer sense of the situation, the next step in using change to become stronger is to find more options to move forward. In a Continue Reading →
When so many things are changing at once, and the world no longer works the way it used to, it can be easy to misinterpret what events mean. If you Continue Reading →