Dr Graham Wilson – 'The Confidant'
Working behind the scenes, helping people of power see themselves, situations, and others differently
At some time in the late 1970s, a well known TV scientist put forward the idea that there was a certain level of stress that […]
Thorndike, in 1920, divided intelligence into three facets; understanding and managing ideas (abstract intelligence), concrete objects (mechanical intelligence), and people (social intelligence). In his words: […]
I don’t like the term ‘emotional intelligence’, or EQ, for several reasons; it is only one aspect of a more substantial area of psychology – […]
There’s more to success than manipulating peoples’ emotions. The idea of emotional intelligence seems to have pervaded business thinking since the book on the topic […]
Over the last five years or so, there has been a fairly dramatic shift in the way in which psychologists look at the human condition. […]
21st December 2008: Since posting this blog entry, I have received email from Don Beck, one of the original authors of the Spiral Dynamics approach, […]
Quaker business principles of fairness and trust are now being shown to be more profitable and less distressing. I’m sitting in my room at the […]
True freedom to act is crucial to authentic leadership, and yet it depends on a personal clarity about our beliefs and values, and how we […]
Leaders who lack the ability to empathise with their team especially in what seem to them to be trivia or unnecessary, make choices and act […]
Do the senior partners of accountancy practices really live longer than the rest of us? Evidence suggests that organised achievers live longest. Business leaders who […]
