Tools for Leadership in Times of Change
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 →
We know that problems contain opportunities and that finding those opportunities will bring us the inspiration that is so important in a time of change. We also know that simply looking for these opportunities will bring us benefits. Continue Reading →
Not every tricky situation we face is going to lead us to discover penicillin or set up Uber. But simply having the attitude that approaches problems as if they contain opportunities will immediately bring us 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 →
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 →
When engineers building a tunnel through a Japanese mountain had a problem with leaking water they could simply have sealed the leak. Instead they bottled it, sold it as mineral water, Continue Reading →
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 →