Last month I had the great pleasure of interviewing Dame Julia Unwin for my podcast the Compassionate Leadership Interview. She spoke of ...

Down the years some of the most successful businesses have been started and run by two individuals with complementary skills. One of my o...

Is there hope for a more compassionate workplace? A friend of mine, let’s call her Sharon, works for a national supermarket chain. She ha...

Why developing the ability to understand an opposing viewpoint is important, and how we might go about it. After a decade or so of compar...

A couple of months ago I wondered whether this were even possible. I had speculated about it briefly in my book Compassionate Leadership,...

But few do, sadly. 1 The Peter Principle This was set out in the eponymous book in 1969 by Dr Laurence J Peter and Raymond Hull. It is th...

You can’t learn all you need to know from the company accounts. There are plenty of books out there on your first 100 days in a new job. ...