STYLE & STRATEGY HUB

You set aside the weekend for the spring wardrobe reset. You pull everything out, work through it properly, and the pile going out comes to two tops and a t-shirt you want to replace in the same colour and a better shape. The wardrobe is full of good things and the morning is still a decision.

That...

You've been told to be more direct. More than once, probably, by people whose read you respect, and the note was fair enough that you've been trying to act on it ever since. Being more direct as a leader gets treated as a skill you either have or go away and build, and most of the advice stops right...

You're ready for more than where you're at. It might have arrived with a promotion, a birthday with a nought on the end, or the ordinary week you realised you'd outgrown the role you're in. What you do with that readiness is a leadership presence question, and almost everyone answers it the same way...

You've had the review. Highly capable. Reliable. A great team player, an expert at what you do. Rave reviews on all fronts, and then one line at the end that doesn't sit with the rest of it: not strategic enough.

No one in the room explains what that means. You ask, and you get examples of what str...

You had the read early in the meeting. The recommendation that went out had fewer edges and one more caveat than the one you'd written in your head, and nothing about that looks like a leadership presence problem.

Leaders in this position tend to call it tiredness and put it down to the volume of w...