*It doesn’t have to be five Successful Head Teachers are superb examples of the galvanising effect of great leadership. A school can be transformed in quick time from a disaster...

Mike Brearley is one of the most successful (and most enigmatic) of England cricket captains. To the uninitiated cricket is a baffling sport, yet its adherents obsess over its...

In 1953 then second lieutenant John Boyd completed an unremarkable tour of duty for the US Air Force in Korea. On his return Boyd was invited to attend the US Air Force’s Fighter...

Several years ago I ran a leadership workshop for a group of young leaders at a major car company. At its conclusion their main feedback was, I wish you could run this session...

This week I had an all too familiar conversation with a CEO. A recent hire, brought into their team with much fanfare and high expectations, wasn’t delivering. After a fast start their initial energy…

When Lou Gerstner took the helm of IBM in the depths of its despair in 1993 he was widely lambasted by the business press for saying the last thing the company needed right then...

I hesitate to waste my time and yours on yet another column on leadership. Yet never has the subject been more important. We look around our world and see millions of people...

Leadership is always the problem and better leadership the only solution. As we face optimistically (if a little apprehensively) into an, as yet, untested new year, here are my...