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Everyday Mental Toughness – Part 2: Commitment
This is the second of four articles concentrating on how to develop each of the four Mental Toughness “sub-components” I work with model developed by Professor Peter Clough and Doug Strycharczyk. In their model the four sub-components are: Control – life control and...
Leadership dimensions and how to wake them up
Leadership is (according to the GLOBE Study), “the ability of an individual to influence, motivate and enable others to contribute to the effectiveness and success of the organizations of which they are members” Some people influence others because they have extremely...
Happy New Year
Best wishes for 2021 Fully engaged energy will get through the next hour Fully engaged energy will get through the next day Fully engaged energy will get through the next week Fully engaged energy will get through the next month Fully engaged energy will get through...
One planet, one world, one people!
Something I published on LinkedIn some years ago Like you, I’m an earthling; our planet belongs to us. I’m British, I was born in London in 1954. I didn’t have choice about being British, nor even in being born; both were thrust upon me, no one asked me if, when and...
Take a break and recharge your batteries
I was coached by a Zen Monk some years ago and I still remember him saying, “the fireman is not there to die”. He meant by this that there will be times when we need to put ourself first; if we want to continue to help others As a leader, the temptation can be to...
A brief history of Mental Toughness
I hear a lot of people say, “oh Mental Toughness, another fad”. If it is a fad, then it is probably a fad that has been around since the dawn of time; those cave men and women who survived the sabre tooth tiger and freezing winters were (without knowing) undoubtedly...
Ego & leadership
I have recently seen many articles and posts knocking the ego and its role in leadership and I often here expressions like, “his ego arrives before him”, or “she is very ego driven” or “she/he has a very big ego” - and most of them give the ego a negative connotation....
Incarnating your leadership
If you want to fully incarnate your leadership capacity, the first thing is to be clear that you understand what leadership is about; defined by the GLOBE study as, “the ability of an individual to influence, motivate and enable others to contribute to the...
Leadership – attitude, energy and awareness
If you ask a dozen or so chemical engineers to define Reynolds number, they would all undoubtedly reply, “the ratio of inertial forces to viscous forces within a fluid which is subjected to relative internal movement” They will even be able to cite the equation Re =...
LEADERSHIP
Leadership is not about self, it’s about others LEADERSHIP Listening to others - "We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say” Encouraging others - “Nine tenths of education is encouragement” Accompanying others - “Don’t let others follow your...