Tools for Leadership in Times of Change
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 become a threat; a strength might turn into a weakness; a chrysalis might turn into a butterfly. In 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 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 find more potential ways forward. We could do this by looking at Continue Reading →
A time of change can often bring unwanted emotions such as anger, frustration, fear, and sadness. Often we work hard to make these emotions go away. But with a different attitude, 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 →
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 →
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 →
Finding more opportunities to move forward puts us back in control and helps us to create the inspiration that is so essential during times of change. As well as the five types Continue Reading →