The rise of responsibility

Climate concerns have gone mainstream. Partly obscured by the economic and human distress as a result of Covid-19, this shift is likely to be more significant and have longer term impacts on the human race than the temporary (but severe) effects of the pandemic. In this de-cooded, we review the shifting attitudes towards the […]
Leadership Perspectives: Q&A with Kenton Cool

Kenton Cool is one of Britain’s most high-profile and celebrated climbers, having successfully climbed Mount Everest fourteen times. With a track record of navigating the world’s most challenging peaks, he is the only Briton to ski down two 8,000m peaks. As an official IFMGA guide for fellow mountaineers. including Sir Ranulph Fiennes in 2007, Kenton […]
Trust and Relationships

A Happy Coincidence? I have always been a great believer in serendipity. I suspect it is a word used in many different situations but, in the last 24 hours, there have been a number of events or things that I have heard that, while superficially disconnected, have all struck me as being connected to the […]
Rising to the challenge…

In the surreal world of UK politics I find myself strangely fascinated by the spectacle of the leader of our country being chosen against a set of completely undefined criteria – would any CEO be selected this way? I suspect it is useless speculation to imagine what these criteria might be, but this blog offers […]