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Comfort zone – the place to be?
The concept of comfort zone is attributed to the psychologists Robert M. Yerkes and John D. Dodson, who carried out experiments to show that a state of relative comfort generated a constant level of performance Many posts about the comfort zone will tell you...
Leadership – making a difference
"The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.” - Robert F. Kennedy One of the hallmarks of leadership is “making a difference”, not necessarily world making differences or even country making differences but simple everyday...
Dealing with diatribe
Diatribe, also known as “Ad hominem attacks” is when someone attacks the character, motive, or some other attribute of a person making an argument rather than addressing the substance of the argument itself. Diatribe is the “nemesis” of dialogue; the latter is...
Does Mental Toughness really make a difference to performance?
A review of the correlation between Mental Toughness and sporting performance based on the results of studies published in scientific journals between 2000 and 2020...
Mental Toughness Achilles Tendon
We all have a Mental Toughness Achilles Tendon I come across a lot of people who seem to be fairly mentally tough but with “specific” issues or weaknesses; and it’s often the weakness that “let’s them down” in difficult situations. Mental Toughness is defined...
Everyday Mental Toughness
Mental Toughness is very much in vogue Nadal, Djokovic, Alcarez and others all showed it and lacked it during the French Open The English and French football teams lacked it during the Nations League The Ukrainian Army and people are showing it in their war...
Leadership& presenting
As a great colleague of mine often says, “presentations are all about leadership” and, as I often reply, “yes, but leadership is not just about presentations” Making powerful speeches is clearly part of leadership; but leadership goes further, much further MLK...
Leaderment & Managership
Interestingly, we don’t say Leaderment or Managership. This article is an attempt at a definitive understanding of what leadership and management are all about. However, definitive is as definitive goes ……. Leaders & managers are people and leadership &...
Leadership or Egoship
Don’t confuse Leadership with Egoship Leadership is about influencing, motivating and enabling others to contribute to the effectiveness and success of the organizations of which they are members Egoship is about trying to convince people that you know best and...
Together Everyone Achieves …
The word “team” is one of the most abused words that I hear used in corporate environments Teams are, apparently, everywhere; the design team, the product development team, the sales team, the project team, the management team, the leadership team ….. and,...