Common Purpose Blog

Common Purpose is currently in its 21st year, in which time we have met and engaged with so many leaders all over the world. In celebration of this, over the coming weeks we will be featuring blogs from 21 guest writers – a group of people who represent the diverse nature of the leaders we [...]

Common Purpose is currently in its 21st year, in which time we have met and engaged with so many leaders all over the world. In celebration of this, over the coming weeks we will be featuring blogs from 21 guest writers – a group of people who represent the diverse nature of the leaders we [...]

The weather has been gorgeous here in London the last few days. In fact, for Britain it has been down right hot! Listening to everyone talk about the weather has made me laugh. I had a Canadian friend tell me ages ago that Americans (those of us from the United States) loved to talk about [...]

I love the idea of inherent conflict (positive) in all leadership decisions and styles. The idea there isn’t and can’t be one way. It’s refreshingly different to the proposition that there are a set of learned behaviours that can be applied.   Twenty years ago a friend gave me the Tao Of Leadership. By reading it [...]

Can you separate these two out? I’ve never thought of leadership as not being linked to change. Is it the sum of your interactions with other entities? Whether we like it or not things change by the fact we interact with them (or if we choose not to they are changed by our absence). At [...]