Tools for Leadership in Times of Change
In a churning world we cannot know what will happen next: an opportunity might become a threat; a strength might turn out to be a weakness; a chrysalis might turn into a Continue Reading →
When I was fairly fresh out of business school I was asked to prepare a strategic business plan for a half billion dollar pan-European technology services company. The industry was Continue Reading →
Having centred ourselves and made clear sense of our situation, the third step of Inner Leadership is to identify our potential alternative ways forward. We could do this by looking Continue Reading →
A time of change brings us challenges. Sometimes, frustrated, we wish those problems would go away. But in our work, the challenges we face are not a barrier to our job, Continue Reading →
Before we respond to a situation, the first step of Inner Leadership is to centre and ground ourselves: to connect deeply with who we are and what matters most to us. One Continue Reading →
A time of change can often bring us unwanted emotions such as anger, frustration, fear, and sadness. Often we work hard to make these emotions go away. But with a different Continue Reading →
Benjamin Franklin was a successful inventor, printer, author, scientist, postmaster, humorist, civic activist, statesman, diplomat, and politician as well as being one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. How Continue Reading →
Winston Churchill famously said: “You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.” A time of change brings us many barking dogs. 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 →
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 →