Last year I was interviewed by Gina Hayden for her new book that has just been published. It’s called “Becoming a Conscious Leader” – she sees me as one such leader. The book contains a number of quotes from our interview which I have grouped into four themes. (1) Seeing the bigger picture: How should…
Month: January 2017
Building a successful personal brand
Lots of people that I have mentored over the years have asked me about building their personal brand so that they can develop their career. I get asked this a lot because I made partner at 35 – five years after joining PwC as a manager – and then got into the UK board of…
Pep talk: Can business leaders learn from sport?
Lots of books have been written by sporting leaders giving leadership lessons to business. I’ve read a few but they don’t seem to me to work, perhaps because while sports people peak for occasional high-profile events, most workers face a daily grind (more akin to the training that sport stars do away from the glare…
Who ARE you?
This is a good question for people interested in being a good leader because the first mistake some people make is to try to be someone else. It is well over ten years since Professor Gareth Jones (then with London Business School and doing a lot of work with us at PwC) introduced me to…
2016. Not the best year for leadership?
So many people seem glad to see the back of 2016. I can’t recall such universal condemnation of a year. It seemed to me that a common factor behind a lot of what went wrong was a lack of good leadership so I’ve decided to devote some of my time in the new year to…
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