| The Body in the Room. - more>> |
 A body is just something to carry our heads around, or at least you might think so to look at the training programmes for most leadership teams and jobs. But the cost of ignoring this fundamental source of information about ourselves and our environment is seen in daily underperformance and yearly burnout. It’s seen in the distrust built between fellow workers and in the failure to inspire others. Yet by focusing on the body, its senses and their connection to the mind many of these issues can be shifted into a positive and renewing cycle.
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| Authentic Leadership - more>> |
 Does it feel lonely at the top? Do you feel you take responsibility for everything? Do you wish your team would step up and take more ownership of challenges? Authentic Leadership helps to engage your whole team passionately in the responsibilities of running the organisation.
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| Stoned to death - more>> |
 A recent NED (Non Executive Directors) article “Stoned in the board room” (www.ned.co.uk/82) highlighted a developing phenomenon of premium marijuana use amongst senior business people. This is the latest a long line of executive ‘recreational anesthetics’ - from the now out dated board room booze cabinet to the cocaine craze of the 90’s.
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| The Art of Authentic Problem Solving - more>> |
 One thing we excel at as humans is problem-solving. You want a man on the moon? Sure! Split the atom? We can do it! Invent a mobile device that people can carry around and talk to each other on, wherever they are? Easy!
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| You've got to find what you love,' says Steve Jobs - more>> |
 This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005. Stanford University Graduation. I get sent a lot of articles that I never publish, sometimes as in this case it is because I do not know their provenance or copyright situation. In this case I feel that the article is so inspiring it is worth the risk - if anyone has a problem with the copyright let me know first, please.
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| Authentic Transformation for business - more>> |
 Authentic businesses flourish at a size and in markets where conventional rivals flounder. Why is this? What enables these businesses to make a profit where others cannot; to grow where others shrink, to fly were others fall? And how might this apply to other businesses or organisations? Having worked with authentic businesses for three years and written about them in his new book – Authentic Business, how to create and run your perfect business, Neil Crofts thinks he knows the answers.
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| Hiring and Retaining Good Employees - more>> |
By Myron Curry, President of BusinessTrainingMedia.com
Hiring good employees is not only important to business, it’s essential. Employees are the heart and soul of a business; they are the mechanism that makes a business run; they are the breath of life that enables a business to be something more than an idea. A business cannot run unless someone (employees, in this case) is doing the work. Any intelligent business owner should want good employees. |
| Integrity - more>> |
| One of the defining features of an authentic business is that they should have integrity between communications and actions. Here Paul explains how you can achieve that. |
| What is the real work of management? - more>> |
| Some of us are striving to better understand ourselves and the world we live in. What we find often doesn’t sit very well with this commercial world: by working within this system, are we sustaining something we don’t much care for? David Brook, a previous contributor, and Alexis Read explore how being authentic relates to the world of management. |
| Why we need more "Essential Communication" - more>> |
| Ray takes a fascinating look at the often cowardly ways in which we communicate and also at the alternative – a more authentic method he calls “Essential Communication”. |