Recently, I was speaking to the leader of a large FMCG organisation. He told me something I’ve now heard, in one form or another, from a number of CEOs. Almost every leadership programme they’d invested in, including some prestigious, well-designed executive...
Lately, more and more organizations have been calling me in to help their teams develop psychological safety. It’s easy to wonder, is this just another HR fad? Actually, it’s one of the most research-backed predictors of team success we have. The concept was pioneered...
Abraham Lincoln famously said, ‘The best way to predict the future is to create it.’ Wise words! However, one of the best ways to create the future, is to predict it! Optimists predict a brighter future for themselves than pessimists. These expectations tend to become...
Have a listen to my conversation with Emperor Marcus Aurelius – once the most powerful man on Earth. Marcus Aurelius was more than the ruler of the Roman Empire; he was a Stoic philosopher, one who faced relentless challenges: war, plague, political unrest....
On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced an audacious goal: landing a man on the moon before the decade was out. At the time, the technology to make it happen didn’t even exist. This was the original moonshot—a bold, nearly impossible vision. Just over...