Common Purpose Blog

What is the definition of impossible?  If it is some Herculean but pointless challenge then there is no point.  However, if the impossibility comes from the failure of others to deal with a particular problem or opportunity it will always be a leader that attempts the challenge. I give a pressing example from my own [...]

Common Purpose is currently in its 21st year, in which time we have met and engaged with so many leaders all over the world. In celebration of this, over the coming weeks we will be featuring blogs from 21 guest writers – a group of people who represent the diverse nature of the leaders we [...]

I am not a native English speaker. So, as a prudent former banker, I looked up the definition of ruthless before attempting a response to this question. Ruthless is defined as “without pity or compassion, cruel, merciless”. This is hardly the way anyone would like to be remembered, except for the few so obstinate in [...]

Common Purpose is currently in its 21st year, in which time we have met and engaged with so many leaders all over the world. In celebration of this, over the coming weeks we will be featuring blogs from 21 guest writers – a group of people who represent the diverse nature of the leaders we [...]

Common Purpose is currently in its 21st year, in which time we have met and engaged with so many leaders all over the world. In celebration of this, over the coming weeks we will be featuring blogs from 21 guest writers – a group of people who represent the diverse nature of the leaders we [...]

No-one can ever hope to know more than a small percentage of what is going on around them.  The better informed you are about what really matters, the more you will be able to give the most appropriate leadership and communicate fully to the widest possible audience. Increasingly leaders are invisible to followers in a [...]

As a serial entrepreneur, Julia Middleton posed this question to me and requested that I write this blog post. At first, it sounded like an easy assignment…but once you drill down into it, it certainly gets the grey matter working! At the outset, I completely buy into the “serve to lead model” concept (incidentally the [...]

The following blog was written by Peter Kulloi, Director, Budapesti Ingatlan in honor of Mother’s Day, which this year in the UK, falls on the 3rd April 2011. My mother was a hero. She was 24 in 1943 when she forged identity papers to help people to survive the war and in April 1944 she [...]

Common Purpose is currently in its 21st year, in which time we have met and engaged with so many leaders all over the world. In celebration of this, over the coming weeks we will be featuring blogs from 21 guest writers – a group of people who represent the diverse nature of the leaders we [...]

The following is a guest blog from Natalie Cooper, Editor at Changeboard, as part of Common Purpose’s 21st birthday 21 blogs. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a term that’s been thrown around for a few years. Some leaders get it. The majority don’t. Yet the economy is crying out for a new era of ethical [...]