This is what I received a few days ago from a British (obviously Eurosceptic) friend: Pythagoras’ Theorem: 24 words. Lord’s Prayer: 66 words. Archimedes’ Principle: 67 words. Ten Commandments: 179 words. Gettysburg Address: 286 words. US Declaration...
A discrete, sometimes hidden, part of the work some of my senior partners and I do, has to deal with Team Coaching, in other words reconstruct the bridge of Trust that bad habits, tensions, pressure or lack of transparency have badly damaged. Mistrust, suspicion,...
Recently I was coaching a Malaysian leader whose job took him all over South and East Asia. We were talking about his experiences of feedback and relating it to some of the key messages in my April 2012 blog on the topic:...
No Schadenfreude (celebrating somebody else’s misfortunes): Michael Porter and his theories were at the center of what I learned at IMD. And his five forces model was and still is a useful checklist that any entrepreneurial leader should be well advised to study...