As you may have heard, I have just published a new book called, “Reawakening the Human Spirit”. I wrote it in response to the dramatic decline in inspiration being experienced in our crazy world right now. Everything I have learned over the last 50+ years working with...
In a recent Korn Ferry survey, nearly 60% of respondents said that returning to the office has had a negative impact on their mental health. “The office can be a scary place, and people don’t want to work in an atmosphere of fear,” The article goes on to say that...
We have navigated our way though the Covid pandemic for three years, and most of us have taken our bruises (and our losses) and survived. But another pandemic has taken residence in people’s hearts—a heaviness, a feeling of doom, anxiety, and sadness about the world....
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, has removed all guest and host fees for bookings in Ukraine. The idea behind his move is to open a channel for direct support to Ukrainians. If you book an Airbnb reservation, (of course you won’t need to actually go!) all of the money will go...
When we emerge from the worst of Covid-19, we will judge companies, and patronise their firms (or not), based on how they behaved during these challenging times. I received an email today with a lot of fluffy bromides from the chairman of Canada’s largest employer...
Yes, we are probably going to have a recession. Yes, it is going to be very painful. As a leading physician has written, we are in for “some long and dark days ahead “. BUT…….. Supposing this was the best wake-up call humanity has ever...
In my day-to-day work with leaders globally, my conviction that leadership is broken becomes stronger with each new business model that I see. There is no laboratory better than the C-suite for observing the dizzying array of leadership models, and all their...
A Buddhist parable tells the story of a monk confronted by a fierce tiger while on a quiet walk. The monk becomes motionless. He knows that just beyond him is a cliff and just below that cliff is the rocky shoreline and the turbulent sea. The monk is caught between...
Every Performance Management system I have ever seen over the years has typically focused on one thing: employee productivity (aka performance). In one case, I saw a program developed by a large international consulting firm for a global pharmaceutical company, and...
For centuries the Roman Catholic Church dominated the world. In time, city states, and subsequently nation states, filled the vacuum caused by the decline of the church’s power in the world. More recently, these were replaced by corporations who have come to...
The Business Roundtable consisting of 181 CEOs of the largest corporations in America just issued a statement updating their definition of the Purpose of the Corporation. It’s framed as a “Mission Statement”. (Followers of our work will recall that I believe mission...
