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Lessons from Mae

by Averil Leimon | 25th Jan 2010 | Blog, Great reads & links, Opinions, Women

I was given the book, ‘Mae West She Always Knew How’ A Biography by Charlotte Chandlerat Christmas and I am only just beginning to dip into it now. The ‘Come up and see me some time’ lines of her character Diamond Lil are universally recognised but I was fascinated to...

New Year resolutions and Backsliding: failing is good for you!

by François Moscovici | 18th Jan 2010 | Blog, Great reads & links, Leaders, Opinions

With as much certainty as night follows day, most of us will have broken the bulk of our New Year resolutions by now. This phenomenon of ‘reversal’ is generally called Backsliding and the terms is often used in the context of Christianity: where a convert reverts to...

Surviving Christmas – Week 4

by Averil Leimon | 24th Dec 2009 | Blog, Coaching, Great reads & links, Opinions

22 Dec A lot of people seem to have watched Love Actually on TV the other night – a growing Christmas tradition. At the start, there are scenes of people meeting and the voice over talks of the fact that many phone messages were sent just before the Twin Towers fell...

Surviving Christmas Week – 3

by Averil Leimon | 21st Dec 2009 | Blog, Coaching, Great reads & links, Opinions

15 Dec ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ (1946) is a traditional Christmas film for many families and may have particular resonance now with a banking crisis, a loss of personal confidence and a questioning of what makes a successful life at the heart of the story. It’s a good...

Surviving Christmas – Week 2

by Averil Leimon | 8th Dec 2009 | Blog, Coaching, Great reads & links, Opinions

8th Dec In the past I have been critical of the tree in Trafalgar Square, outside  our office window. It was nothing compared to e.g. the Rockefeller Center in  NY. This year I went to the lighting ceremony and returned moved and humbled. This 2009 tree grew for 80...

Surviving Christmas – Week 1

by Averil Leimon | 1st Dec 2009 | Blog, Coaching, Great reads & links, Opinions

1st Dec Start by changing your thinking about  Christmas right now. Notice what you are feeling negative about. Change what you can and decide on a survival strategy for the rest. The latter should not  solely focus on alcohol, overeating and fighting with the...

Leadership and unemployment: Part 1 – The mystery of the pretend worker

by François Moscovici | 20th Nov 2009 | Blog, Leaders, Opinions

Let’s start with the dry stuff: 2.5 million unemployed in the UK, still short of the 3 million hypothetical target. Number of vacancies stagnant. Long term unemployed on the rise. If you subscribe to the theory that employment lags economic recovery by about six...

Carrying men

by Averil Leimon | 19th Nov 2009 | Blog, Opinions, Women

Apparently, as more men lose their jobs due to the economic crisis, more women are becoming the family breadwinner with interesting effects on gender role definitions. A recent study by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation called Understanding Fathering, confirmed that it...

What the papers say

by Averil Leimon | 13th Nov 2009 | Blog, Great reads & links, Opinions, Women

We had just sent our latest book Coaching Women to Lead to the publishers, our last book Essential Business Coaching was the best seller in the series, and I was taking my time catching up with last week’s Sunday papers. I concluded that we had certainly tapped into...

Lessons from Mae

New Year resolutions and Backsliding: failing is good for you!

Surviving Christmas – Week 4

Surviving Christmas Week – 3

Surviving Christmas – Week 2

Surviving Christmas – Week 1

Leadership and unemployment: Part 1 – The mystery of the pretend worker

Carrying men

What the papers say

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