This follows on from last week’s article – you can discover the first 3 reasons that leadership coaches shouldn’t give advice here. And just like in that article, I’m using the term ‘learner’ rather than the more traditional – but misleading…
3 Reasons Why Leadership Coaches Shouldn’t Give Advice
Note: I’m going to use the term ‘learner’ throughout this article rather than the more traditional ‘coachee’. I’m not a fan of that term, because it implies being a passive recipient, which is emphatically not what’s going on in the…
The Problem With ‘Visionary’ Leadership
As I write, it’s ‘Fat Cat Friday‘ in the UK. January 4th the day when the chief executives of FTSE 100 companies have already earned as much as the average salary of their workers. Acclaimed author Yuval Noah Harari talks…
Why Emotional Intelligence Is Important For Good Leadership
A useful reminder in this short interview with Daniel Goleman of why Emotional Intelligence is vital for good leadership. Also, why the most important strengths of emotional intelligence may not be the most visible ones, and why Self-Awareness is the most…
Leadership And Expressing Emotion
Authenticity In Leaders Is Not Enough For Their Followers Some thoughts inspired by the discussion about ‘Are Leaders Getting Too Emotional?’ between Gautam Mukunda of Harvard Business School and Gianpiero Petriglieri of INSEAD on the always excellent HBR IdeaCast. There is a…
14 Leadership And Innovation Lessons From David Bowie
Some initial thoughts on leadership and innovation prompted by David Bowie’s life and work, and reading various obituaries and think-pieces about him: 1. What you are is as important as what you do, and more important than what you say.…
Peter Drucker On Strengths and Leadership
“The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths in ways that make a system’s weaknesses irrelevant.” – Peter Drucker, quoted by David Cooperrider in the foreword to The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Practical Guide to Positive…
Leadership: Fear Is Not Enough Motivation For Sustained Change
You may have heard of the ‘burning platform’ metaphor for corporate change. The idea is that people won’t change unless current conditions are sufficiently scary to make them take the leap into change, whether they want to or not. Here’s…
Leadership Emotional Intelligence Book Now Available
My new e-book, Leadership EQ: How To Lead With Emotional Intelligence, is now out. It’s the first in the ‘Quick Personal Development’ series, designed to provide no-frills, no-fluff answers for specific problems or challenges you may be facing. Here’s what…
The Leadership Emotional Intelligence of Margaret Thatcher
Mrs Thatcher inspired affection and loyalty from her own supporters like no other British leader since Churchill. This article examines why. Whatever you thought of her policies, there are leadership lessons we can learn. As I disagreed with nearly all…