Why Restructures Snap Back: The Rubber Band Effect and How to Make Change Hold
Restructures rarely fail on launch day. They fail six months later, as old habits reassert themselves inside the new boxes. Using the Wheel of Change and the Cooplands story, this blog explains the multi-level work that makes structural change hold.
Stop Arguing About Leadership Style: What 11,640 People Tell Us About Adaptability
A meta-analysis of 31 studies found leadership matters for adaptability, however the style label made no measurable difference. What mattered were motivational and relational behaviours, and the context they were used in. Develop behaviours, not badges.
Surviving, Coping or Thriving? Seven Places to Look Before Your Next Change Programme
Resilience is observable. This blog shows what surviving, coping and thriving look like across the seven dimensions of The Resilience Wheel, explains how the everyday model and the eight-state field guide fit together, and sets out what helps people move up the continuum.
Quiet Is the New Burnout: Why UK Leaders Are Walking Past Disengagement
Leaders scanning for stress walk straight past the person who has simply stopped caring, because they look calm. This blog sets out the behavioural difference between burnout and disengagement, the two questions that tell them apart, and a free field guide for leaders.
The Loneliest Job in the Building: What Gallup Reveals About How Leaders Really Feel
Leaders report higher life satisfaction than the people they lead, and more stress, anger, sadness and loneliness within the day. Gallup's 2026 data shows engaged leaders reverse the pattern entirely. Here is why leader resilience is a business issue, not a perk.
Hope Is Not a Plan - Unless You Lead It Like One
People do not lose hope because the goal is too ambitious. They lose it because nobody has shown them a route, or what part they get to play. Drawing on Snyder's hope theory and the Cooplands story, this blog sets out how leaders can lead hope honestly through change.
VUCA, VUCA Prime or BANI? Why Resilience Has to Come Before the Acronym
Is BANI replacing VUCA? It is the question L&D professionals keep asking, and it is the second question, not the first. VUCA, VUCA Prime and BANI describe the weather; none of them builds the boat. Drawing on Gallup's 2026 data, new meta-analyses on leadership and coaching, and fresh UK research, Russell Harvey makes the case for building and role-modelling resilience first, so the frameworks have something to stand on.
Why Capable Leaders Reach Out for a Coach — And What the Evidence Says About Why It Works
Three separate strands of research — leadership agility, transformational change, and coaching triggers — converge on the same point: capability alone is not enough. Context is where a coach makes the difference.
From VUCA to BANI: What the Next Wave of Leadership Research Means for Your Business
Leadership research is beginning to shift from VUCA towards BANI — brittle, anxious, nonlinear, incomprehensible. Here is what that means for how organisations should be developing their leaders.