I recently had coffee with a Global VP of HR of an exceptional technology firm in London. We often meet to discuss many strategic topics and met to discuss my new book, “The Trust Paradigm”. During the course of coffee we decided to focus on one of her questions: ‘What is the journey today for [...]
Co-authored by Geoff Hudson-Searle, and Ex-Lieutenant Colonel Oakland McCulloch, It is always a pleasure to join forces with my good friend, ex-Lieutenant Cornel Oakland McCulloch. I have always said the biggest issues in the world today are Leadership without Purpose, Trust, Community which has an obvious correlation to Societal and its Impact to the World. [...]
Co-authored by Geoff Hudson-Searle and Gimena Uhrich HR is undergoing a significant shift with the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. This transformation is driven by the need for greater optimization and cost efficiency, as well as the desire to enhance the employee experience. The use of generative AI, and other new technology, is enabling [...]
In the last few years, leaders and their styles have been in the spotlight. What can this person, regardless of political affiliation, learn from leaders of the past? Confucius recommends that we “study the past if you would define the future.” Lessons abound in past lives, to be sure, and no more than in those [...]
Co-authored by Geoff Hudson-Searle, Scott Siegel and Scott Schlesinger It’s hard to quantify exactly how important trust is for a business. For business owners, a lack of trust is your biggest expense. It may take years for a manager or an executive to develop the trust of his or her employees, but there are only [...]
There is much executive discussion around ‘realistic optimism’, which is the ability to balance out negative and positive things in situations, circumstances and people.It is the courage to explore opportunities, where others are blocked by risk and failure, with the belief that the future will be better than the past. Optimism bias is defined as [...]
Life is short. Why not spend it mired in regret? Why not spend your evenings sitting side by side at the dining-room table with your spouse, trying to determine whether your downstairs neighbours’ ceiling fan is making the floor tremble? Our brains are busier than ever before. We’re assaulted with facts, pseudo facts, jibber-jabber, and [...]
Over the past five years, there’s been an explosion of interest in purpose-driven leadership. Academics, business experts, and even doctors make the case that purpose is a key to exceptional leadership and the pathway to greater well-being. Despite this growing understanding, however, a big challenge remains. Few leaders have a strong sense of their [...]
Corporate leaders today are measured by a new yardstick. The supreme test of a CEO and board of directors is now the value they create not just for shareholders, but for all stakeholders. The shift to stakeholder capitalism creates pressure for corporate leaders to try to satisfy a wide range of constituencies with different, sometimes [...]
The London transport system commonly renowned for ‘The Tube’ and ‘Mind the Gap’ reliably transports 1.34 billion people a year across its network and the busiest train station in London is Waterloo station which commutes 95.1 million passengers a year (research provided by transport for London http://tflgov.uk). The most common factor in any commuters possession [...]
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