Tools for Leadership in Times of Change
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 →
Ten years ago the challenges you face today would probably not have arisen for you. You were likely in a different role and didn’t have the skills or experience to be Continue Reading →
Finding more opportunities to move forward puts us back in control and makes us more likely to find the inspiration that matters so much during times of change. As well as the Continue Reading →
We know that problems contain opportunities and that looking for those opportunities will bring us the inspiration that inner leadership is all about. We also know that simply looking for those opportunities will improve morale and put us Continue Reading →
We’re not going to discover penicillin or invent Uber with every tricky situation we face. But, whether or not we find a world-changing solution, having an attitude that approaches problems as if they Continue Reading →
We have seen that 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’ lab Continue Reading →
When engineers building a train tunnel through a Japanese mountain discovered they had a problem with leaking water they could simply have pumped it away. Instead they bottled it and sold it Continue Reading →
A newly published Insight from Stanford Business School tells us something we probably already know: when it’s difficult to predict the outcome, people become less likely to take risks. Researchers 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 →