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A New Age of Leadership There was a time when the people worked for the [...]
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BBC Children in Need Having worked with The Executive Team of BBC Children in Need [...]
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African Development Bank Back in Abidjan, Ivory Coast with the African Development Bank (AfDB), I [...]
Theresa May has been cruelly nicknamed the Maybot, for her robotic and unemotional responses to [...]
Not Every Negative Action is Worth a Negative Reaction It was another typical winter morning [...]
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A couple of years ago, I was privileged enough to have the opportunity to interview [...]
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Whilst running a Boot Camp for all the African Development Bank’s Young Professionals (a newly [...]
The days of the aloof but brilliant CEO, spending most of their time in long [...]
During this webinar interview with Catherine of MBA World, I explore the reasons why the [...]
How we ensure that employees are encouraged to do their best every day is Employee [...]
I had the privilege of being invited to compere a really important and well thought [...]
The Falling Of Oxfam? Oxfam has fought hard to make so many disadvantaged people’s lives [...]
I had just arrived at the ‘Gherkin’ building in the City of London. I was [...]
Some years ago, I was invited to give a leadership talk at Marks and Spencer [...]
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Our Youngers and Betters (part 2) The polarisation and tribalisation in today’s politics exacerbates a [...]
New Dawn for South Africa? It was truly a momentous occasion at the recent ANC’s [...]
From Job Seekers to Job Creators As an early morning ‘ice breaker’ for our Leadership [...]
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Managers Can Lead We were by the extraordinarily beautiful Lake Malawi, it was November 2016, [...]
The Technocrat There was a time not so long ago when the CFO was purely [...]
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Leadership is no longer about rank or hierarchy. It’s about who can influence and persuade [...]
Nothing is Best Done Alone Anymore Business has become far too fast moving and markets [...]
On arrival, late in the evening at Copenhagen airport in Denmark, we looked forward to [...]
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The Killer Flaws of a Political Leader The recently published book, Betting the House: The [...]
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We were always taught that Public Relations (PR) was the “the truth told well”. The [...]
My daughter and I were looking forward to watching the climax of the World Athletics [...]
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I had agreed to deliver a ten-minute address taken from my new book, Spike, to [...]
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Sitting in the sun, near the aisle at a good friend’s outdoor wedding in Palm [...]
