David Balshaw

“Emotional intelligence is the foundation of leadership. It balances flexibility with toughness, vision with passion, compassion with justice.” - Amit Ray If you have been in industry long enough, you have most likely heard that the level of emotional intelligence a...

“Emotional intelligence is the foundation of leadership. It balances flexibility with toughness, vision with passion, compassion with justice.” - Amit Ray If you have been in industry long enough, you have most likely heard that the level of emotional intelligence a...

“Progress is impossible without change, and those that cannot change their minds cannot change anything”. - George Bernard Shaw Executed effectively, leadership development enables your business to establish and keep a competitive advantage. As the world continues to...

Zig Ziglar once said “You don’t build a business. You build people and then people build the business.” It’s true that the quality of your organisation depends on the quality of your people, and the greatest impact on the quality of your people is not only the people...

The greatest power we have as humans is the power of choice. Ponder that thought. We are powerful beings, yet the greatest power is our power to choose. The power of conscious choice. In each moment, in each situation, you have the ability to choose. Many of us don’t...

There comes a time in history where old ways of thinking do not match with our desire to create a new reality. In this era of interconnectedness, innovation and rapid growth we need to make a conscious choice to change our thinking and actions to match what we are...

"Only three things happen naturally in organisations: Friction, confusion and underperformance; everything else requires leadership." - Peter Drucker Whether it’s a truism or merely tongue in cheek, there’s definitely merit in the statement. You don’t have to look...

I’ve written before that leadership is less about doing, and much more about being. In other words, you can’t DO your way to leadership. You have to BE a leader. And BEING a leader requires much more than following processes or tactics handed down from those in...

Leadership is much less about what you do and much more about who you are. This can be a hard concept for many people to grasp since most people’s experience of business, work and life comes from unconscious family and societal conditioning. For most people, we have...

“Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticise?” Marcus Aurelius Arguably one of the most influential and best leaders of the past 2000 years is Marcus...