For those who know me, you’ll know this has been a journey over a decade in the making. Since 2012, my relentless curiosity about organisational culture - and how the balance of masculine and feminine energy shapes it - has led me deep into the fascinating interplay...
Leadership and leadership character is poor globally. Many should not be allowed to run a bath, never mind run a country or an organisation. I wonder if there is a different way to change the world for good? Not through quotas, barricades, marches, destruction and...
Coaching offers a bench space to explore, to talk, to listen to yourself to gain insight, and know the way forward that is right for you. The coach is not your chosen visitor on the bench, the coach guides you to the bench, creates the right environment, and then...
Wednesday feels like a good day to write about visioning – half the week has gone, and the other half is still to come; and I wonder what will it look like, feel like, sound like and be like, if this week delivered the best outcome you could hope for? By the time you...
My work on leadership values continues, and on Saturday, whilst ploughing through my ironing, and listening to one of my books, ‘The Seeds of Greatness’ by Denis Waitley (mainly to take my mind off the monotony of pressing bedding), I suddenly stopped mid-steam, and...
Michael E. Porter reminds us that too many leaders mix up ‘strategy’ with ‘operational effectiveness’. Both are needed, but they are different – one is about leadership, the other about management. However, in my experience, too many strategies are still more about...
Integrity is a core value – there are just a few. Integrity is a value that I believe should be tested, assessed, assured and continually checked out before someone is appointed to a role of leader. Tough one? Maybe, but I suspect there is a huge majority of us who...
