In the face of unprecedented challenges, the need for bold leadership has never been more crucial. But why is the present so.......'Bizarre'? 🤷♂️ Myself, Dr Paul T. Thomas and Mark Hutchings explored how dodgy decision-making, oversimplification and mistaking the map for the territory, has led to some bizarre situations and outcomes. This is important work and society needs leaders … Continue reading Bizarre Times…. You think?
🌍🔍✨ Capitalism Doesn't Solve Problems, it Wants to Make a Business Out of Them, Thereby Perpetuating the Problems.... 🚀 If the War in Ukraine wasn't eye-wateringly profitable for an amazingly small number of people... Do you really think the UK would be involved? The Conflict is probably responsible for the increased inflation and interest rates … Continue reading Capitalism doesn’t want to solve problems
Introduction In recent years, an increasing number of individuals have started questioning the effectiveness of corporatocracy and capitalism as the dominant systems governing our societies. While capitalism has long been hailed as the driving force behind economic growth and innovation, the real driver was human curiosity. We didn't need capitalism, humans love solving problems but … Continue reading Corporatocracy and Capitalism Aren’t Really Working, and People Are Finally Beginning to Realise…
Wouldn’t it be great if hard work really did enable you to achieve your goals? In order for it to be a possible you would need to be motivated and have the resources. If that is the case, a good performance coach could help you achieve those goals. If I’m coaching a business owner, they … Continue reading The Cruel Charade of the Personal Development Industry & Why it’s Bad for the Environment
Environment predicts behaviour and the challenge with trying to transform the world is that we're still operating in a culture of 'Dominance Hierarchy'. As Anand Giridharadas notes in his book: 'Winners Take All' the elites begin to lead social change only to let their own bias for power and control, restrict any useful transformation. The … Continue reading Developing Social Systems to Prevent The Four Horses of the Apocalypse
When change agents don't speak out because they're scared the system will reject them, then there are no pioneers, rebels or mavericks... Just managers and enablers of the status-quo. Fortunately 👩🏻💻Hannah Cox FRSA FRGS kicked off the The Better Business Network Summit which brought together courageous collaborators on a mission to transform the paradigm we're living in. It was … Continue reading Better Business Summit
In the UK, air pollution is the largest environmental risk to public health. The annual mortality of human-made air pollution in the UK is roughly equivalent to between 28,000 and 36,000 deaths every year. Asthma is the most common long-term medical condition in children in the UK, with around one in 11 children and young people living with … Continue reading How Capitalism and Hierarchy Continue to Destroy the Health of the World.
When I wrote my Book: ‘From Mercenaries to Missionaries’ I wanted to give entrepreneurs, executives and managers tools around leadership and teamwork that are sublimely simple and easy to implement. Too much of the leadership lexicon has fallen into the realms of academia. Nothing wrong with academic study, but academia is often the activity of … Continue reading Too Many TAPs, Not Enough STOP’s, We Need More LEGO
Archimedes said, ‘give me a lever long enough and a strong place to stand, and I can move the world’. Well the lever is leadership and the place to stand is humility. With humility the word leader transforms from a noun to a verb. Leading is something that ordinary people can do to leverage the … Continue reading THE FIVE SUPERPOWERS OF GREAT LEADERS
