We can often spend time thinking about our leadership and how we are doing as leaders against our aspirations. I notice that I can spend time focusing on how I’m doing as a leader and be asking myself how I showed up today, where I was behaving at my best and where I was not [...]

It was the end of a long week and I’d been working in my office all Friday. Everything seemed to be going wrong and nothing I put my hand to was working out right. I was getting frustrated with all I was trying to do and I started to become generally cross with the world. [...]

Human beings are fantastic. I’m constantly reminded of this especially when I’m talking with people who are ‘up to something’ big. These people are aware that they need to draw on something special to pull it off. For many of us being at our best or the best we can imagine is enough to get [...]

In the world of leadership meaning is everything. One of the questions I often ask clients is: ‘What are you making it mean?’ ‘It’ being anything from something someone says, their tone of voice, the way they are looking at us to news of a set back or even news of a success. I first [...]

I really liked Anni’s recent note on the power of committing to another’s success. Here’s my take on this topic. Without the commitment of George – a leadership consultant with whom I worked for several years – my success today may have been very different. About twelve years ago, and after much soul searching, I [...]

I often have a conversation with leaders about this question. It usually involves the realisation that they had reached the limits of everything they knew before they took on their current role. This is a great place for the progressive leader to find themselves in. It means they can stop looking brilliant by having the [...]