Anniversary

Anniversary

  This week is my anniversary week; I ran my first leadership development event in September 1986, a ten-day Barton Camp experience for graduate trainee managers I am now entering my 36th year of leadership development, which means at the young old age of 66, I...
From diatribe to dialogue

From diatribe to dialogue

  Edgar Schein described dialogue as “a discipline for collective learning” Dialogue is aimed at fostering mutual insight and common purpose. The process involves listening with empathy, searching for common ground, exploring new ideas and perspectives, and...
The importance of recovery

The importance of recovery

  If pressure and stress are your enemies, recovery and energy are your allies. – if you want to perform well in the storm, you need to recover well! Performing in the storm looks somewhat like this Select the challenge(s) to face up to Prepare to face up to the...
Where is your Achilles Tendon?

Where is your Achilles Tendon?

  I come across a lot of people who are “globally” 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 a “A personality trait which determines, in a large part,...
Leadership lessons from Twelve Angry Men – lesson 12

Leadership lessons from Twelve Angry Men – lesson 12

  Lesson n°12, is not a particular scene but something that is shown throughout the film, “The power of questions” Socrates only had questions in his “tool box” and he made a great reputation for himself by using the judiciously. Questions are one of the...