The "lonely at the top" feeling great leaders are supposed to have? Entirely self-inflicted. If you're leading people, you actually have no excuse to be lonely, because you should be sharing responsibility, vision, strategy, insight, needs, etc. And one thing you should always be doing is finding that sounding board of one or more trusted advisors with whom you can share and bounce ideas, perspectives, challenges, queries, hopes, dreams, road blocks and frustrations. Unfortun

In leadership conversations, culture is often invoked as both the problem and the solution. It’s what’s blamed when things feel misaligned, and what’s celebrated when organisations thrive. But amid the urgency to change culture, one fundamental truth is often missed:

One of the great frustrations in business is the "pointless presentation," retreat, or development session. Just last week, someone...