The ripples you create… I was on a train going into central London yesterday. A lady came on, Korean I think, and sat down opposite me and on the other side of the aisle. She pulled out a tangerine and peeled it. She then offered some to the man sitting opposite her – a thin […]
Leadership
Mission turns our diversity from divisiveness to strength
Back in the 1950s, after US presidential elections when pollsters asked citizens who didn’t vote for the winning candidate what their reaction was, the responses tended to be along the lines of “He’s our president, I wish him well”. Today, this cannot be said of most citizens of either the US or the UK. So […]
Honour
Honour. Seems like an old-fashioned word. “Doing the honourable thing” is mostly taken to mean that young men should accept their responsibility if they’ve made someone pregnant outside of a long-term relationship. Or a negatively-loaded word as used in “honour killing”. The irony and delusion of someone believing that murder actually brings honour. Really? Which […]
Flourish
Flourish. That’s my word for work in 2023. It’s always been there for me. It was the biggest satisfaction I got when I had a large team – seeing team members flourish. The stories that live with me most and which get me most emotional are those where I’ve seen people grow often beyond what […]
Me first
For all the talk of servant leadership, in society at large, our focus is increasingly on “me first”. But if we actively participate in and feed a culture where it’s all about me – my daily photo to share with you all, my obsession with me time, put yourself first, look after you because no […]