Leadership Insights
In "Leadership Insights" we'll be using our blog space to regularly share our experience and reflections on the multiple challenges leaders face in today's complex and ambiguous business landscape.
The Art of Being a Resilient Leader
Wednesday 2nd January 2019
Mike Mullins
When asked about the root of her success Victoria Pendleton, Gold Medal winner at London's 2012 Olympics, put it down to "marginal gains". Thinking of everything that goes into riding a bike competitively and then improving each element by 1%, to get a significant shift in overall performance. This included better hand washing techniques and athletes taking their own pillows and bedding to hotels, when competing, to ensure improved sleep. Like Victoria Pendleton we can think of ourselves as "leadership athletes", focusing on the "marginal gains" we can make to how we sustain and renew our well - being and performance as leaders when under pressure. In this article I’d like to explore: >The nature of "power stress" that can affect leaders…