Category Archives: The Churning

An article in the Harvard Business Review gives an example of how important it is for leaders to “talk the walk” as well as “walking the talk”. In The Churning’s inner leadership, Continue Reading →

Chapter 1 of The Churning’s inner leadership tells us that exercise and spending time in nature are two good ways to centre and ground ourselves. For maximum benefit we might even Continue Reading →

Finland is redesigning the way it teaches school ‘subjects’ and starting to teach ‘topics’ instead. Students learning about the European Union, for example, will study a cross-section of history, economics, Continue Reading →

A recent post by Seth Godin talks about how we often waste time teaching people things they’re not really committed to learning. His solution is to teach commitment first. Because Continue Reading →

The Oscars ceremony teaches us to look for others for approval. But what if we didn’t need the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to tell us who was best? And Continue Reading →

Professor Dame Sandra Dawson, until recently the Director of the Judge Business School in Cambridge, talks in a short video about the essence of leadership, governance, and ethics. Her views Continue Reading →

Chapter 7 of inner leadership includes a section on how leaders can help their people to let go of the past. This includes burying or setting fire to something that Continue Reading →

People and things that are fragile break when they come under stress. People and things that are resilient or robust do not break under stress. But people and things that Continue Reading →

Zig Ziglar said that when obstacles arise you change your direction to achieve your goal, you do not change your decision to get there. The Churning helps address this in two Continue Reading →

In a time of churning we can sometimes feel anger, fear, sadness, or even emptiness and numbness. All of these can be transformed into something that will help us change the situation. To Continue Reading →