Doing a deal where you least expect it

The impact altitude had on haggling, one heady day.   My first business was called Muscle Music. It rented out PA systems to touring bands. My business partner and I were in our early 20s, both 5’6″ tall (or is that short?) and the name reflected our rather immature sense of humour. Artists we worked […]

Why I Champion Conscious Empathic Leadership

My title could have read Why I Champion Conscious Empathic Leadership In Men, to emphasise the extra importance of men having to work more consciously at displaying empathic behaviours in their leadership, but that feels just as sexist as saying that female leaders need to ‘man up’! Traditional ‘male’ characteristics like decisive, powerful, authoritarian and […]