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

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

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

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

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 that people in a hiera...

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. Most of them are bas...