Leadership can be tricky. It can be hard. Doing the right thing is not always the popular thing. But nice guys do sometimes finish first, even when they should finish last. I…
Leadership Lessons from Jazz
“If you’re not making a mistake, it’s a mistake.”Miles Davis My favourite album is Kind of Blue by Miles Davis. Leading is a lot like jazz. Jazz is messy. Leaders face mess…
How Picasso can make you a better leader
For centuries, artists have shaped how we see the world and we can learn leadership lessons from them. Pablo Picasso is a great example. Half a century before Apple was encouraging us…
Leadership lessons from a boat ramp
The late great Nelson Mandela said “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid,…