Governance Should Enable Decisions, Not Create Meetings
Governance is one of those organisational concepts whose importance is rarely disputed, yet whose purpose is surprisingly easy to obscure. Few leaders would argue against…
The Ten-Year-Old in the Room: What Tilly Smith’s Story Teaches
The story of Tilly Smith is usually told as an extraordinary example of the value of education. In December 2004, the ten-year-old British schoolgirl was…
Are Your People Thriving… or Surviving?
What if the real workplace wellbeing problem is not whether people can cope, but what we are asking them to cope with? Workplace wellbeing has…
The Psychology of Red Nails
There are moments in life that seem so ordinary they barely deserve a second thought. A routine journey to work. A conversation with a stranger….
SELF: Release Version 2.0+
I was having a conversation with my children recently about feedback. Like many people, they viewed feedback with a degree of caution. Their instinct was…
When Leaders Become the System
The Quote That Started the Reflection A quotation recently caught my attention while I was waiting in the reception area of a modern office building….