Heather Bingham

We’ve taken quite the battering in the UK economy. As with everything else, certain elements of behaviour become more pronounced when we are stretched, tired, and under strain. If you are witnessing more difficult behaviour from those around you, you may find some explanations in this presentation. However, it is rarely helpful to apply heavy labels too quickly. It is often more useful to understand how behaviours shift under sustained pressure - particularly in those who would otherwise be...

Clockwise from top left: Tony Curtis as Taras Bulba; John Mills as Captain Scott; a painting of Azrael is linked to a 1892 poem by Delville called "Azraël"; and a portrait of Berlioz on a Deutsche Grammophon CD I don’t really do Christmas music. I play one Christmas concert a year, which is always good fun (this year the front desk will be trampling on their own authority by donning deeply uncomfortable antlers). However, Classical Christmas can be a dreary affair. This year, our choir has...

** aka How CEOs Fix Problems at the Root Most SMEs don’t struggle because they lack strategy. They struggle because the strategy never reaches the organisation in one coherent piece . In practice, the real blocker is almost always the same: Leaders can see the problems clearly, but the organisation can’t see the leaders clearly. And that gap — between what the CEO knows and what the organisation experiences — becomes the breeding ground for frustration, misalignment, duplicated effort, weak...