It's easy to criticise the leader or senior leader - until you're the one in that position. Then suddenly you realise all of the pressures that were on them in the past. But that doesn't excuse the previous leader from having been rotten or managing poorly. Nor does it excuse you. It's a challenge to you: How will you proceed? Will you adopt the same manner and problems or will you change direction and do things differently? You will make mistakes. That comes with the territo

I was reminded the other day of The Challenger Shuttle disaster . January 28, 1986, the Challenger shuttle, loaded with the first...

Peter McLean video - Leadership Under Pressure

Strategy rarely fails suddenly with fireworks and explosions. It fades. It drifts. It becomes the oh-so eloquent term, “meh.” But great leaders - the kind that recalibrate systems, teams, and themselves - stop and ask a different question:

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...