By Ray Williams May 20, 2021 Leadership from Without Leadership theory and practices for generations has been driven by the belief that the appropriate focus should be on the external world — what the leader does, and not what the leader thinks and feels. It is the...
By Ray Williams May 20, 2021 Many parents today wonder what kind of world their children will grow up to inhabit. Will they face ongoing deadly pandemics? Will the planet be ravaged by extreme climatic events, depleted of vital oceans, forests and biodiversity? If we...
By Ray Williams May 20, 2021 Corruption in the United States is a serious issue compared to other Western countries, according to a new global report released by Transparency International. Some experts argue the US decline is due to declining trust in democratic...
By Ray Williams May 17, 2021 In my 40 years of training, mentoring and coaching leaders I’ve found overconfidence, a critical component of a lack of self-awareness, accounts for a significant percentage of leader failures. Overconfidence is the mother of all...
By Ray Williams May 17, 2021 The violence, cruelty and unfairness shown to us daily by the media could prompt us to believe in humankind’s darker nature. But research on young children has shown that we are not born that way. Anecdotally, anyone who’s spent...
By Ray Williams May 15, 2021 Many super successful people will tell you they were lucky to have been at the right place at the right time. Everyone can’t be at the right place at the right time. According to both fascinating new science highlighted by the MIT...
