Leadership self-evaluation

Leadership self-evaluation

Leading & leadership are more about “being” than “doing”; this may not be a psychometric tool, but it will give you a good indication of whether you are being a leader! Simply assess yourself, honestly, on the twelve elements below and work on those where you feel...
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...