You are Invited to an Inaugural Masterclass

You are Invited to an Inaugural Masterclass

As you may have heard, I have just published a new book called, “Reawakening the Human Spirit”. I wrote it in response to the dramatic decline in inspiration being experienced in our crazy world right now. Everything I have learned over the last 50+ years working with...
You are Invited to an Inaugural Masterclass

The New Pandemic is Here!

We have navigated our way though the Covid pandemic for three years, and most of us have taken our bruises (and our losses) and survived. But another pandemic has taken residence in people’s hearts—a heaviness, a feeling of doom, anxiety, and sadness about the world....
Cheer up!

Cheer up!

It seems that we can’t open our news feeds these days without reading another depressing headline. So, here is my antidote for you today:     First, Visit www.inspirepledge.com and make a commitment to being your best, inspiring self today, and just as...
Bromides are Not Enough – Actions Speak Louder Than Fluffy Words

Bromides are Not Enough – Actions Speak Louder Than Fluffy Words

When we emerge from the worst of Covid-19, we will judge companies, and patronise their firms (or not), based on how they behaved during these challenging times. I received an email today with a lot of fluffy bromides from the chairman of Canada’s largest employer...
Good Timber – from Inspiration in the Cloud

Good Timber – from Inspiration in the Cloud

During our “Inspiration in the Cloud”  Zoom video call today, I shared this poem with all of the participants who joined our weekly 30-minute inspiring conversation. The poem is starkly gender-insensitive, but, remember, he died before I was born!...
Leadership Models

Leadership Models

In my day-to-day work with leaders globally, my conviction that leadership is broken becomes stronger with each new business model that I see. There is no laboratory better than the C-suite for observing the dizzying array of leadership models, and all their...
The Myth of Stress

The Myth of Stress

A Buddhist parable tells the story of a monk confronted by a fierce tiger while on a quiet walk. The monk becomes motionless. He knows that just beyond him is a cliff and just below that cliff is the rocky shoreline and the turbulent sea. The monk is caught between...
Why Performance Management Programs Fail

Why Performance Management Programs Fail

Every Performance Management system I have ever seen over the years has typically focused on one thing: employee productivity (aka performance).  In one case, I saw a program developed by a large international consulting firm for a global pharmaceutical company, and...
Reclaiming Corporate Trust and Respect

Reclaiming Corporate Trust and Respect

For centuries the Roman Catholic Church dominated the world. In time, city states, and subsequently nation states, filled the vacuum caused by the decline of the church’s power in the world. More recently, these were replaced by corporations who have come to...