Power

Power

“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Lord Acton I often hear & read about politicians and business leaders being labelled as “having power” and I often ask myself, how much power do they really “have” and how much is “given” to them? We...
Mental Toughness – Pillars & Foundations

Mental Toughness – Pillars & Foundations

Mental Toughness isn’t something you can directly see. When people say someone “showed great mental toughness,” they’re actually referring to the visible outcomes: actions, decisions, and behaviours, not the trait itself. Like the unseen portion of an iceberg, Mental...
I am an earthling

I am an earthling

One planet, one world, one people! 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 where I wanted...
Leadership Workout

Leadership Workout

Learning “about” something or learning “to do” something? Learning about playing the guitar is relatively easy, there are a lot of books that explain chords, patterns, modes, octaves and the like; you can even learn every note on every string of the fretboard without...
Don’t always believe what you see and hear

Don’t always believe what you see and hear

Why you shouldn’t “believe your own eyes”, or even “believe your own ears”, Our eyes are information collectors; each eye has millions of photoreceptors that capture information from our external world and transmit it to the visual cortex in the back of brain via the...