“The difficulty lies not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.” John Maynard Keynes Imagine this… A teenager lies unconscious in the sand dunes of a North Devon…

At a recent meeting we attended, participants talked about the organisational challenges they were facing. One person pointed to a strategic paralysis at Executive level in their organisation. ‘There’s a lack of…

‘Culture is what happens when the CEO isn’t in the room’ John Collinson, CEO Stripe If Peter Drucker’s adage that culture eats strategy for breakfast is right, why is it that we…

‘Leadership is an activity in pursuit of something new and better … It’s a group sport, not an individual heroic activity’. Ed Schein (MIT Professor Emeritus ) How do you define leadership?…

“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs”…………… On the importance of containing anxiety We live in unprecedented times or Megachange as Darrel West calls it. Megachange…

In her book, Conversational Intelligence Judith Glaser proposes that conversational competence is critical to priming the brain for trust, partnership and mutual success. The quality of the conversations we have will determine how well…

In organisations, the importance of trust is multi-faceted. Recent World Economic Forum research points to CEO concerns that falling trust in their organisations will hinder growth. Within organisations there is a strong…