11 Paradoxes of Leadership

Managing paradox is an essential element of leadership – being able to recognise it and manage one’s own approach to it. On a personal level I often experience paradox while traveling – I have a strong love-hate relationship with both the US and India. I’m so acutely aware of my emotional responses at the time [...]

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How Can You Inject More ‘Soul’ at Work?

Exploring why we suffer from a lack of soul in the workplace, insight from David Whyte, and a list of suggestions on how to tap into the soul at work.

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Roadmap to Customer Excellence

Just got back from the ‘Talent for Growth’ seminar at Cineworld Haymarket in central London. Great lineup of speakers all talking about how to inspire talent by building great culture, leadership and a comms platform that works. This is the presentation I gave – essentially you need a strategy to deliver customer excellence – so [...]

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What the book The India Way can Teach us in Business

According to the new book ‘The India Way: How India’s Top Business Leaders are Revolutionising Management’, there are 4 key practices common across the leading companies in this exploding market.

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Work-Life Success & the Mountain Biking Metaphor

There was a time, many moons ago, where I was able to go out mountain biking for 3 – 4 hour arduous rides, at least three times a week. These days my rides are a little gentler, but I still get so much out of them.

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