A career, a family, or both, what do women want?
Listen to Averil taking part in the discussion in the Global Russian Radio Service- the Voice of Russia.
Heroes share need for resilience action
This month we divert our gaze from the Olympic flame (briefly) to focus on the all-important subject of survival – business and personal… Economists will tell you that the number of bankruptcies is a lagging indicator of recovery: businesses run out of cash just as...Women of influence losing patience
⅔ now favour quotas and want men more involved A year ago the long-awaited Lord Davies report on women on boards came out and made specific recommendations to reach 25% female participation on the boards of FTSE350 companies. So we thought we’d ask women on the...
Second Hand Stress
I was asked for some expert comment on the radio about second hand stress. A recent study claims that stress is as contagious as the common cold and that you can actually ‘catch’ other people’s anxieties. Passive or second hand stress can become...
Second Hand Stress
I was asked for some expert comment on the radio about second hand stress. A recent study claims that stress is as contagious as the common cold and that you can actually ‘catch’ other people’s anxieties. Passive or second hand stress can become...When Networking is about life and death…
This week I went to see the excellent play A British Subject at the Arts Theatre in London. It’s a classic tale of miscarriage of justice and forgetting inconvenient truths in the name of realpolitik . It is based on the true story of Mirza Tahir Hussain, a Leeds...When Networking is about life and death…
This week I went to see the excellent play A British Subject at the Arts Theatre in London. It’s a classic tale of miscarriage of justice and forgetting inconvenient truths in the name of realpolitik . It is based on the true story of Mirza Tahir Hussain, a Leeds...
Happiness
It’s time for the soft launch of my downloadable book 100 Lessons in Happiness – part of the 100 Lessons series. Lessons in Happiness” This was a real experiment for me – to take profound lessons from positive psychology and turn each into a 100 word concept ...
And the Networked Ones will inherit the earth…
A couple of weeks ago BBC Radio reported a conference trying to understand how to manage Generation Y workers. Findings were interesting, yet not easy to interpret or put into action. We have a broad understanding of what distinguishes the 15-30 year-olds from their...Book Review: Leadership Coaching, ed. by J. Passmore
We promised you some book reviews so here is the first one! Feel free to contribute your own or to point us towards other good reads by commenting on this post… It is always tricky to review a book written by a colleague: if you enthuse about it you can be accused of...