The reports this weekend about Dean Windass, the recently retired (and much loved) soccer player who has tried to commit suicide show yet again the dark side of sport.  It can be difficult to understand from the outside why people who seem to have everything feel as if they have nothing. Yet...

In this article, we will continue using what we hope is the temporary exit of Lloyds Banking Group's Chief Executive, Antonio Horto Osoria as a starting point for exploring why any leader can succumb to the stress inherent in their working lives.  We will also use it to share some of Jonathan's personal experience of when he went through...

Intensive support/turn-around is great value but creating an organisation where people never need that help is even better.  If you catch someone before they burn out, that will be 10% of the financial cost of someone going off and approximately 1-2% of the opportunity cost! And taking steps to create an environment that helps individuals to...

In a stressful environment, the demands placed on the individual become so great (it’s too fast and too unpredictable) that the individual loses their ability to focus and their capacity for independent action.  They experience various combinations of uncertainty, doubt, confusion, self-deception, indecision, fear, panic, discouragement,...