Leadership was once about hard skills, such as planning, finance and business analysis. When command and control ruled the corporate world, the leaders were heroic rationalists who moved people around like pawns and fought like stags. When they spoke, the company employees jumped. Now, if the gurus and experts are right, leadership is increasingly concerned […]

My “thinking time” usually comes at the end of each day and it is not only a time of reflection – looking back over the day and confirming to myself that I achieved all of my key objectives – but also a passage of time that prompts me to look ahead; to plan; to strategize. […]

Leadership has been defined as “the ability to inspire willing action” Emphasis is placed on the “willing.” But to understand leadership, we need to delve a little deeper than that. One thing which experience has proven over and over again down through the ages is that when any group of people are thrown together for […]