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,...

What you believe produces your results, which reinforces your belief, which produces your results. If you have empowering beliefs you can be spiralling up in life, but if you have disempowering beliefs you can be spiralling down instead. One of the examples propagated...

If we all agreed about everything all the time, then life would be a breeze. But we don’t, and sometimes it isn’t. Often, we do find ourselves in a disagreement with others. Maybe when buying a car or a house, or at work with a supplier, a customer, or with your...

What does being assertive mean to you? Does it bring up images of being bossy or rude, or people who must get their own way all the time. Or does it bring to the surface feelings of fear. In her book Perfect AssertivenessJan Ferguson defines it in this way; “Being...