As I write political leadership in the UK is in disarray after the EU referendum decision to leave the EU. The Prime Minister resigned and political chaos erupted at the lack of a Brexit plan. Boris Johnson backtracked on many Leave campaign promises and spent...
If you want to be an expert at something the mantra is “practice, practice, practice” . Put the hours in. And then practice some more. Same with leadership, right? Well no, actually. Don’t practice. It’s wasting your time (and probably your money too). All the Practice...
When you're leading change telling the right story makes all the difference in that difficult second act, so let’s think about what makes for a good tale. Once Upon a Time...
Welcome to the upgraded Millennial Leader app 2.0. Now with a new added vision for work and play...
Responsibility and trust. Not the sexiest of leadership topics. Maybe that’s why all too often they don’t have much of a life beyond clichéd leadership mantras. But leaders who don’t behave responsibly fracture the trust we place in them. Think Donald Trump and his inflammatory comments...
This weekend I watched a documentary about the death of traditional advertising. The message of The Naked Brand is simple. Consumers are too smart, too connected and too suspicious for traditional ads to work any longer. Gone are the days when you can lie to an unsuspecting...
We’ve all heard about how lies in leadership created the Enron scandal. You may have seen it laid out in technicolor detail by Alex Gibney in his movie, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. You may have even heard about Gibney’s take on Steve...