Do coaches pick up the ball missed by managers?

According to Stefan Stern, writing in this Tuesday’s FT, Britain’s managers are woefully inadequate and it is this that has fuelled the substantial market in Business Coaching in recent years. You can read the full article by {clicking here}. The… Continue reading

Do sporting analogues work in the world of business?

Another invitation to a Sporting Dinner arrived in my post this week. The speakers were once eminent sportsmen who, the organisers assure me, are going to impart their wisdom on how to build a better team to the business leaders… Continue reading

Leadership coaching and existential psychology

Every now and then one of my leadership coaching clients will want to explore a little more about my own ‘philosophy’ and how it influences my work with them. I don’t have a ‘philosophy’ that I can confidently side with,… Continue reading

Business school includes prayer as a tool for creativity and more

Bentley Professors Bring Spirituality and Meditative Practices Into Business Education An American college, Bentley College, just outside Boston MA, has been awarded a grant to develop a programme to re-educate their management educators. The plan is for them to be… Continue reading

Does history inform the future?

“Life is divided into three terms. The one which was, which is, and which will be. Learn from the past to profit the present; And from the present to live better for the future. It’s the best way to lead… Continue reading

On Being Human

What does it mean to be ‘human’? One definition of man reads: ‘an integrated unity of the biological, the organismic and the personal, the natural and the social, the inherited and what he acquires during his life….’Being human is simple,… Continue reading