Thoughts on Leadership

Building the pipeline for girls to flourish in business

Building the pipeline for girls to flourish in business

There’s a moral case for your company to give equal opportunities for your team regardless of their backgrounds, their gender or their sexual orientation. There’s also an business-performance one in…

Negotiating. A masterclass from Sunak and von der Leyen

Love, hate or ignore him, there is much to be learned about negotiation from the Windsor Framework negotiated by Sunak and von der Leyen. Here are some key ones I…
The ripples you create

The ripples you create

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…

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…

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…

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