Book Review: Leadership Coaching, ed. by J. Passmore
We promised you some book reviews so here is the first one! Feel free to contribute your own or to point us towards other good reads by commenting on this post… It is always tricky to review a book written by a colleague: if you enthuse about it you can be accused of...Champagne!
On Thursday we received a couple of plain looking boxes without any content indication. A few minutes later screams all-round: our latest book had finally been published! So on Friday we trotted to London’s National Portrait Gallery for a Champagne Tea celebration....
This is a man’s world, this is a man’s world But it wouldn’t be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl. James Brown and Betty Jean Newsome.
Are our attempts to develop women to function well in a ‘man’s world’ misguided when: 60% of university graduates worldwide are women 80% of the market is female or female influenced gender balance has been repeatedly proven good for business Why are...Forever Blue… Not!
I was going to write a learned entry about managing Talent but an unforeseen event happened last night that reordered my priorities… We went to see Chris Isaak at theShepherd’s Bush Empire, a West London theatre now dedicated to good live music (Buddy Guy is playing...“Run politician run”: the other marathon
Today’s politicians are fit for purpose. What does it say about business leaders and their responsibility to keep their business in shape? As if a six-week campaign was not gruelling enough, I was astounded to learn that all three British big party leaders had...Peter Graves: the death of the Perfect Plan
News just in: Peter Graves, the team leader in the original Mission: Impossible (1966-1973), has passed away last night, aged 83. Forget the diluted Tom Cruise remakes, Peter, along with Martin Landeau and Greg Morris were the real thing! Peter and friends represented...The Rabbi’s leadership wisdom
A couple of weeks ago I was invited to one of my friends’ son’s Bar Mitzvah. These are usually exciting affairs: lots of symbolism, proud parents and a good party afterwards. However, I was, as usual, dreading two things: an overlong service (typically twice as long...Ship arriving too late to save a drowning witch
This week’s smile comes from Frank Zappa’s album cover which he himself borrowed from Roger Price’s Droodles. The message, obviously, is that timing is everything. As the current recession slowly washes away, one of the lagging indicators will be – as usual – the...
Visible leadership: when do you stop digging and say sorry?
After many years of observing great and not-so-great leaders, I have come to the conclusion that the ability to say sorry in a meaningful way is one of the key strengths of enduring leaders. I have also observed that only those leaders that can retain a certain...