Dancing in the moment
Rush, rush, rush. . .I often have real concern in organisations when I see people lurch from one frenetic activity to the next, taking little opportunity to sit back and reflect on what and how they are doing. It often makes for bad business due to tunnel vision....
Go with the flow?
Sounds a bit too hippy and laid back for modern leadership? According to positive psychologists, achieving a state of flow is the real key to effectiveness, creativity and sheer joy in your work. In flow, you have total concentration, time flies and you know you are...
Compassionate Leaders
‘There is always pain in the room’ (Frost 2003) This week alone I have heard that someone’s frail elderly Mother is going through surgery, a city broker is dealing with a heart problem and has more tests to endure, a banker is despairing about yet more indecision...
Building the best M&A management team: Survival of the Clearest
More than 60 per cent of European mergers still fail to produce value. A key reason is the inability to select and retain a high-quality management team. CEOs and boards look after themselves, but it is in the one or two levels below that where value is gained or...
Childhood memories
Do you believe that your childhood was the best time of your life? Was your childhood better than the childhood of the children growing up today? Averil Leimon answers to these and more questions on BBC Radio Late Night Conversation.
‘Postnatal Depression: The Impact on New Fathers’
Do new dads get a raw deal? Listen to Averil on BBC Radio Scotland ‘Morning Call’ talking about what happens when tough men lose the limelight after babies are born. Click here to listen to the full podcast on the BBC Radio Scotland...
Wine making and leadership: pick your strategy carefully…
October typically represents the lull between the harvest season in the Northern hemisphere and the release of the Beaujolais nouveau in late November. A perfect time to attend a wine tasting organized by the good people at Bordeaux Index. As the evening progressed, I...
Yom Kippur, forgiveness and leadership
Tonight, for Jews around the world, marks the beginning of Yom Kippur, a 25 hour fast and Day of Atonement. It is not an isolated event but rather the culmination of 10 days of preparation for the new Jewish year. Although it can be seen as a deeply sad day punctuated...
The four letter F word…
I feel. . . . It is fascinating how, for some people, the whole world of feelings is not so much uncharted territory but rather a country they do not actually know exists. So don’t even realise how restricting this blind spot is. We work a lot with people to develop...