Working apart together
We have all been spending a lot more time in web based meetings, and much already has been written about this. I've been saying that it is easy and productive,…
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August 24, 2020
Radical Kindness
I hosted one of a regular series of virtual action learning sets last week, with a very capable group based across Europe, the US, and India. We’ve been meeting for…
June 16, 2020
Judgement = comparison + criticism
A slightly longer piece this time probably aimed more at practitioners; coaches, HR folk etc., and related to the hot topic of psychological safety and one of the ways in…
February 25, 2020
Whole person coaching – using the self as a tool for change
After 40 years of working with organisations of all shapes and sizes my coaching practice seems increasingly to be focused on the most ‘professionally personal’ of all topics – the…
February 3, 2020
What kind of leader do you really want to be?
In the mid 1700’s Frederick William of Brandenburg, King of Prussia, thought that his son (also named Frederick) was ‘effete’, weak, and not good King material. He embarked on a…
January 6, 2020
What do you stand for?
Nearly 30 years ago as a ‘newbie’ leader, I found myself in a situation that hit me so forcefully that the echoes of it reverberate to this day. I was…
October 25, 2019
Stick or twist?
So here I am, a well-respected Partner in a thriving business with great colleagues, working with some of the most well known organizations in the world and with a long…
September 14, 2019