OUR BLOG
THOUGHT LEADER
Our musings on the challenges and opportunities of 21st century leadership.
So Many Leaders But When Is It Leadership?
Global Business Leaders is a company specialising in leadership, so it’s a fair question to ask what we consider leadership to be? There are thousands of books written on the subject, including our own, and probably a fair few more to come off the presses...
read more
The Value of Values
Purpose and Values are strongly interlinked. The definition of “values” could be summarised as: what is important to us, what we value. They are a shorthand method for describing our needs and our inner motivations. Our values are revealed in what we believe and in...
read more
Leadership lessons from an NHS Development Champion
The challenges faced by the NHS are many and well documented. Limited resources with an increasing and insatiable call on those resources. Someone winning recognition for bringing solutions to this area is bound to be noticed (as indeed Donal Collins was when invited...
read more
Humbug!
Definition: A boiled sweet, often bought by children in little twisted paper bags on the way home from school. A pejorative term meaning rubbish or nonsense. The language our leaders use The use of the word ’Humbug’ recently by the PM of the UK has caused a stir....
read more
Putting the corpus back into ‘corporate’
How aware are you of the impact certain words have and how they affect decision-making and judgement? In our next series of blogs we’re looking at some common terms in organisational life and how their impact affects our thinking and behaviour in ways which we may...
read more
Are you a 21st century leader?
Never before have we needed more true and honest leadership to manage the complexity of our current business world. The reality is that leaders in organisations today have to cope with so much – not just long days, never-ending to-do lists and fighting the balance...
read more
The bigger picture – but do we buy it?
Watching a programme on the infinite possibilities of life in the universe, the filming did one of those telescoping out shots zooming from a recognisable bit of the earth ever outwards into an expanding, seemingly boundless universe. You’d think that this vertiginous...
read moreLISTEN IN ON GOOD LEADERSHIP
Be part of the Global Business Leaders community and get a fresh perspective on 21st century leadership.