First of all, what makes for an inspirational leader in business, or any other context? What is the effect an inspirational leader has? What makes them more than just, say, a resourceful leader? Well, I think it’s like this: Inspirational leaders, often without even being aware they’re doing it, lift the…

Sometimes we need to look for the exit. It’s a fact of life. Too much has changed; we’ve “grown apart” or, perhaps more likely, it just wasn’t right in the first place and it’s time to face reality. For one reason or another, some marriages, instead of enriching our soul, somehow drain us of our vitality, try as we may to improve them.

More often than some might imagine, people get married even when they have doubts, like they were on a train they somehow couldn’t get off. I for one…

In January in Scotland—and well into February too for the committed—we remember Roberts Burns, who among other things wrote “Auld Lang Syne” and “A Man’s a Man for a’ That,” both familiar worldwide. What better way to while away the cold, dark winter months than the enjoyment of traditional music and song? As…

You can see a kind of relief on their faces. “Oh, you mean communication,” people often say when I tell them I work on professional relationship skills. “Well, no actually. Communication skills are part of relationship skills, not the other way round.”

Merely communicating well isn’t enough to be…