Tools for Leadership in Times of Change
When so much around us is changing so fast, it becomes even more important to be able to spot the opportunities in a situation. One very powerful and ridiculously easy way of Continue Reading →
We have seen how in a time of change there are no intrinsic opportunities and threats and how the key attitude that defines leadership is the ability to see a Continue Reading →
When Georges de Mestral came home from a walk one day to find his clothes and his dog covered in burrs, he didn’t just remove them: he looked closely at 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 churning world we cannot know what will happen next: an opportunity might turn into a threat, a strength might turn into a weakness, a chrysalis might turn into Continue Reading →
Winston Churchill famously said: “You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.” This time of change is bringing us many ‘barking 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 company. The industry was undergoing Continue Reading →
After we have grounded ourselves and made clear sense of the situation, the next step in learning how to use change to become stronger is to find more options for Continue Reading →
Sigmund Freud said that bad things happen to us in our childhoods and that sometimes the memories of these can return to upset us when we get older. But for Continue Reading →
A new Insight from Stanford Business School tells us something we probably already know: that when it’s difficult to predict the outcome, people become less likely to take risks. Researchers found Continue Reading →