‘If you love somebody, set them free,’ advised Sting back in 1985. Little did he know he was setting out a core principle of leadership for the 21st century. It’s the big idea behind award-winning author Helen Beedham’s second book People Glue: Hold on to your best people by setting…
‘We don’t understand much about hope, and yet people are crying out for it from leaders.’ If you ever hear someone dismissively say ‘hope is not a strategy’, be sure to introduce them to Ian Pettigrew, author of Hope is a Strategy. He will disabuse them of the idea that…
‘O nce you know that you can’t do it all, it becomes a little bit easier.’ Why do so many of us feel like we’re drowning in endless demands and to-do lists, at work and at home? Why, when we have so many smart productivity tools, is it so damn hard…
‘The crux of our whole business is just really finding talented people to help others do what they can’t do themselves as well.’ Kevin Anderson never planned to become CEO of one of the biggest editorial agencies in the world, but that’s where his knack for seeing opportunities in a…
“Love feedback, hate feedback, feel sort of somewhere in the middle, it still creates this sense of anxiety for everyone around.” Organizational psychologist Becky Westwood is an expert in social anxiety at work. And that gives her a unique persepctive on the situation guaranteed to created anxiety in ALL of…
“We need to think carefully about whether it’s going to be the kind of pressure that creates energy and joy and diamond-style transformation, or the sort that sucks the air out of the room and makes things buckle and break.” Pressure is the new normal – in life, at work,…
‘ An author might be thinking, I can’t wait till the book is out on a bookshelf… I would suggest focus on the experience of the writing and the pleasure of actually writing the book and the satisfaction you’re going to get in doing that.’ David Sinkinson, SaaS entrepreneur, podcaster, and…
‘I think that flow is quite important. It’s almost like a cultural logic.’ Intercultural communication is always complex, but for Western leaders seeking to build relationships as a way in to the mighty Chinese market, it’s particularly tricky. From seating plans to changing job titles to how to ask for…
‘Our businesses have been designed for us by us, for humans by humans, and that’s what the big change is now.’ What’s the real promise and transformative power of AI in business? In their new book Autonomous: Why the fittest businesses embrace AI-first strategies in digital labor, Henry King and…
‘You have a choice about how you put content out into the world in 2026, and that choice isn’t just a business choice, it’s about who you are and what’s important to you.’ It’s the time of year when we traditionally think about the changes we want to make in…
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