“Resilience, the new must-have executive skill” (Harvard)

To build resilience ask two questions

The Harvard Business Review this month has an article on building emotional resilience. “In an era where business keeps moving faster,” the article says, “it is no small wonder that resilience has Continue Reading →

Lessons on leadership from British politics

Sleepwalking towards a chaotic Brexit

“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

Coping with 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

Nikki Giovanni

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 →

Learning from America’s greatest president

Abraham Lincoln Memorial

In the 150 years since his death there has not been a single US President better than Abraham Lincoln. A survey in February 2015 still ranked him top. This is a man who led America through Continue Reading →