by Jonathan Gifford | Jan 16, 2011 | Culture
have always been viewed with suspicion or dislike: we have an ambivalent attitude to the people who control access to the capital we need in order to make our business dreams a reality.But some of history’s great banking families—the medieval Italian Medici family,...
by Jonathan Gifford | Jan 10, 2011 | Leadership Ideas
People still talk about ‘the masks of leadership’—about a leader’s need to present different ‘faces’ to different audiences. Forget it. People see straight through people who are not being honest with them; they know when they are being manipulated. And people...
by Jonathan Gifford | Jan 4, 2011 | Leaders from History
Taking the Offensive is one of the leadership and business skills that draws most heavily on comparison with military strategy. One of the greatest proponents of offensive strategy in recent military history, for example, was the American General, George S....
