Tag: leadership

June 14, 2015 Chris Pearse

Vulnerability and Helplessness are attributes not normally associated with the role of a Chief Executive. Perhaps they should be… My client, the CEO of a national charity, was becoming increasingly worn down by a situation that was fraying her nerves and making her feel weak and inadequate: I was getting more and more frustrated and anxious…

June 14, 2015 Chris Pearse

How the Big Issue that no one wants to talk about can strangle progress. A few years back I ran a Strategy workshop for a small, rapidly growing company. About 30 turned up – everyone, apart from Mike, the MD, who had deliberately stayed away so as not to inhibit the discussions in any way. The…

May 16, 2015 Chris Pearse

I regularly work with boards and senior management teams on Strategy, which as far as I’m concerned, essentially means working out: where we are; where we want to get to; how we’re going to get there. It’s a deceptively simple challenge – simple, not necessarily easy. Occasionally, someone pipes up with: “Let’s talk about Values!” at which point…