The Unified Team

How do we lead conversations that engage people and create change?

All change starts with a leader who can engage their team. True leaders open conversations that engage their teams. Leaders through…

What's the first question for every leader to answer?

This is the question Romana Prochazkova answered in today's podcast. She explained the answer that is key for every leader. Especially those ear…

How do we get to peak performance?

In an ever more demanding world there are more and more demands on our time and energy.  How do we ensure that we meet the demands of our work, home and family and y…

Why should someone choose you?

For the job. The project. Or the contract.

We live in a world of overwhelming choice and yet each of us is trying to stand out and be valued.

The social media world has …

Why do groups of the smartest people make dumb decisions?

The Bay of Pigs invasion. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. Blair and Bush's war on Iraq.

Every day in smaller ways groups make terrible …

Whenever we introduce change we meet resistance.

Every change involves loss of some sort for someone. That person is likely to be the person who most resists the change. How well we address their co…

Why do we do this?

Whenever we join together, there's a sacrifice. We give up time, resources or autonomy. So why would we join?

Humans have always joined together because some goals we can only achi…

How do I get people to do what I want?

Change is notoriously difficult. So is leadership. But why?

Because often the change we seek to make isn't for the greater good.

It's for what I want. For my pe…

Everyone wants to feel good about themself.

Our inner narrative is driven by this imperative. No-one wants to hate. We hate when we're empty.

We need to find a scapegoat that explains why we're not…

Why are some people so much better than everyone else in a given field?

What makes a Usain Bolt or Steve Jobs so successful? Is it nature or nurture? Outliers by Malcom Gladwell seeks to answer the…

The world is changed by those who can inspire and unite.

Whether it's Martin Luther King giving a dream for the civil rights movement. Nelson Mandela uniting South Africans as a new nation. Or a tea…

Business wants to be scientific.

Managers want to see data, facts and evidence to base decisions on. The last thing anyone wants to do is to put the company at risk. No-one wants to be blamed for be…

Every life has value and lessons.

Hollywood and the mainstream media look for the blockbusters. But often the insights and lessons we need come from people like us. People living everyday lives who …

When we gather together, there's pressure to agree.

Groups create norms. And belonging often means we have to conform. Challenging those norms threatens the group.

And so it can put our belonging at …

If you had one shot...

One opportunity to seize everything you ever wanted...

Would you capture it or let it slip?

We never know when an opportunity will fall to us. And often they fall when we're not …

Where does power come from?

Does our authority come from our position? Or from our presence? Our belief will affect how we show up.

People who see their power as their position will seek to build the…

250 years ago the founding fathers drew up the U.S constitution.

They had been able to learn lessons from older nations and avoid some of their mistakes. This disparate union of states grew to become…

Do you like to read?

I've always loved to read. It's the possibility of finding new ideas. Ideas are the building blocks I play with.

When I read books I want new ideas.

Ideas that change my thinking. I…

Most leadership is remedial.

For me, a Leader has three key roles...

1. To articulate the vision of what the collective is going to achieve.

2. Agreeing the strategic direction that everyone's going to…

If you failed at your job more than 50% of the time would you still have a job?

Imagine a Surgeon who failed half the time. Or a pilot. Or a production line.

Now look at the divorce statistics.

More tha…