In my previous blog on simplicity, I said there are only two things you need to know – You are responsible for your life, for what you think about it, how you feel about it, and what you do with it. You and no one else. And that what you put out is what you get back....

The individual and the collective trend towards complexity. When we are born all we can do are simple tasks, but as we grow we can perform more and more complex activities. A measure of a developed society is one that has increased its level of complexity. But the...

Next month I am talking at the American Board of Hypnosis’s conference. I am talking about leadership and emotional intelligence, not hypnosis. So, in the interest of balance let’s talk about hypnosis here instead. People have strange ideas about what hypnosis is. I...

For the final instalment of this mini-series on leadership, let’s focus on the future. This is no easy task of course, because first of all, there is no ‘The Future’, instead there are many possible futures. Secondly, we are not all likely to agree on what the current...

It is 700 years since the death of Marco Polo, a Venetian merchant who was one of the first to travel to China, and to write about what he experienced there. With letters of introduction from the Pope, Polo, his father, and uncle travelled down the Silk Road to the...

For the fourth instalment of my mini-series on leadership, we are focusing on followers. You can’t lead unless people are willing to follow. You may think that you are a leader, but if you have no followers then you are only leading yourself. Good leaders are tuned...

Once more the UK is going through its democracy ritual. The choices for Prime Minister are perhaps less polarising than Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn, but they feel uninspiring to me. The politics of envy play out once more when people look at the ex-investment...

Good communication skills are essential for any leader. As a leader you may have the most insightful and groundbreaking vision the world has ever seen, but if you can’t articulate it then it will never happen. Even if you can, to a degree, articulate your vision, if...

For the second instalment of this short series on leadership, I am going to discuss what it takes to be a leader. In my last post I did talk briefly about three qualities of leadership, integrity, learning, and passion. So, let’s expand on these. Integrity comes from...

One of the topics I have often written about is leadership. There are a couple of reasons for this. One is that much of the skill set within NLP is essential for effective leadership. And the other is that today, in my opinion, the world is bereft of good leadership,...