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Leadership Wisdom

Leadership Wisdom

LEADERSHIP WISDOM Some of the best leadership lessons I’ve ever learned didn’t come from a boardroom, but from the side of a mountain. As a young Army officer with the Scots Guards, I found my…

LQ – Legacy Quotient: Leave Your Enduring Leadership Imprint

LQ – Legacy Quotient: Leave Your Enduring Leadership Imprint

LEADERSHIP WISDOM LQ – Legacy Quotient: Leave Your Enduring Leadership Imprint Consider Field Marshal Lord David Richards GCB CBE DSO DL (Podcast 298). Throughout his career, he led operations…

Leadership lessons they don’t teach in school – Making A Man Guest Spot

Leadership lessons they don’t teach in school – Making A Man Guest Spot

New podcast guest spot Leadership lessons they don’t teach in school I joined the Making A Man podcast for a frank conversation about the leadership lessons you learn in real life, not textbooks. Hos…

LEADERSHIP WISDOM RQ – Resilience Quotient: Thrive in Adversity

LEADERSHIP WISDOM RQ – Resilience Quotient: Thrive in Adversity

General Sir Mike Jackson GCB CBE DSO (Podcast 126), former Chief of the General Staff, sadly died in 2024. A few months earlier I had corresponded with him. He was terminally ill with cancer, yet you…

LEADERSHIP WISDOM – CQ – Collective & Cultural Quotient: Drive Cognitive Diversity

LEADERSHIP WISDOM – CQ – Collective & Cultural Quotient: Drive Cognitive Diversity

Mark Urban is a distinguished British journalist, historian and broadcaster (Podcast 370); renowned for his fearless commitment to truth and his deep knowledge of defence, foreign affairs and militar…

MQ – Moral Quotient: Find Your True North

MQ – Moral Quotient: Find Your True North

LEADERSHIP WISDOM on MQ – Moral Quotient Angie Klein, CEO of Visible (Podcast 75), runs the Verizon-owned company with a reputation for no-nonsense drive and unwavering integrity. She said: “I…

Maintain Your True North

Maintain Your True North

I’ve seen it, in the military and the boardroom. Leaders whose values drift as outside pressure builds – one shortcut here, a quiet compromise there. It doesn’t look like much at first, but one…

How can you make use of the Compass Model to Navigate Your Team through Turbulent Times?

How can you make use of the Compass Model to Navigate Your Team through Turbulent Times?

Whether in the heat of military operations or the pressure cooker of corporate life, our instinctive response to crisis is fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. When the stakes are high, the mind narrows…

New Podcast: Leadership Wisdom with Anthony Scaramucci

New Podcast: Leadership Wisdom with Anthony Scaramucci

LEADERSHIP WISDOM Leadership Wisdom with Anthony Scaramucci: At fifty-three, Anthony Scaramucci (Podcast, 379) had achieved the kind of boardroom success most leaders dream of. Nothing humbled him mo…

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