Tools for Leadership in Times of Change
When George de Mestral returned from a walk one day and found his clothes and dog both covered in burrs he didn’t just remove them, he looked closely at how 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: a strength might become a weakness, an opportunity might become a threat, a chrysalis might turn into a butterfly. 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 still 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 Continue Reading →
After we have grounded ourselves and made clear 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 pianist Keith Jarrett arrived at the Köln / Cologne opera house in 1975 he found that the wrong piano had been put on stage for him. It was an Continue Reading →
Sigmund Freud thought that sometimes the memories of things that happened to us in our childhoods returned 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 can often be to want those emotions Continue Reading →
A time of change can bring us many challenges. Sometimes, in frustration, we might wish those problems would go away. But in our work, the challenges we face are not Continue Reading →