The story of the four frogs
On a hot sunny day, four frogs are sitting on a log. One decides to jump back into the cool refreshing water. How many frogs are now sitting on the Continue Reading →
Category Archives: 4: Choose What’s Best for You
Transforming unwanted emotions into something more useful
A time of change is almost bound to bring us unwanted emotions such as anger, frustration, sadness, or fear. When this happens, our first response can often be to want Continue Reading →
Clarifying your professional passions (Harvard Business Review)
This recent post by Robert Steven Kaplan, Professor of Management Practice and Senior Associate Dean at Harvard Business School, suggests two sets of tools for clarifying your passions: One is to Continue Reading →
Lessons on leadership from British politics
“The UK is in a spectacular mess,” writes Martin Wolf in the Financial Times today. Why? Because “David Cameron launched an unnecessary referendum on EU membership” in order to pacify Continue Reading →
Coping and succeeding in a VUCA world
In his latest book, on Leading Innovation, Creativity and Enterprise, speaker, consultant, scientist, musician, and author of eight books on innovation and leadership Peter Cook suggests four strategies for managing our organisations, and ourselves. Continue Reading →
Study finds no correlation between personality at 14 years old and 77
The longest ever personality study has just compared the personalities of almost 200 people aged 77 and with the personalities of the same people when they were aged 14. It found that there is no correlation Continue Reading →
In a time of change anything is possible
When so much change is happening so fast, all around us, it is easy to find ourselves waking up one morning thinking, “How did this happen? How did I get here?” Continue Reading →
How do we resolve the Brexit crisis (1 of 2)
When resolving any situation, the first step is to decide where you want to get to. Then work out how you are going to get there. Inner Leadership provides several tools Continue Reading →
Why David Bowie matters to us
Why is it that we mourn when people we’ve never met die? People like David Bowie, Michael Jackson, Nelson Mandela. The reason, as a fan tweeted recently, is because they help us Continue Reading →
Finding the opportunities in the refugee crisis
As thousands more refugees continue to enter and walk across Europe so the crisis deepens. But a crisis often contains an opportunity. It was the petri dishes that ‘failed’ which Continue Reading →