Steve Rudderham reflects on Bernini's colonnade at the Vatican and asks the question every leader should sit with: what are you building that will still matter when you're no longer in the room?

In his latest Steve's Corner, Steve Rudderham draws a line from Churchill's brickwork to what we now call Behavioral Activation. Sometimes it is a wall. A garden. A pressure-washed driveway. Anything that forces your hands to solve a problem instead of your head.

It is not a midlife crisis. It is neurological maintenance. And Churchill knew it a century ago.

AI will not wait for your organisation to mature. It will land exactly where the work sits today. If that work is fragmented, inconsistently governed, and weakly owned, AI will not create integration. It will automate the fragmentation. You have not built the future of work. You have taught a machine bad habits."

Steve Rudderham has negotiated in boardrooms across the world. His sharpest training came from an Indian craft market.

In his latest Steve's Corner, Steve breaks down five negotiation lessons that translate directly from market stalls to the meeting room. Including the most underrated move in any negotiation: walking away slowly, while pretending you're definitely not coming back.

In an age of digital disruption, how do you turn highly trained global teams into real drivers of business outcomes? Deborah Kops turns the question inside out and starts with a word most organizations need to stop using.

When we were dating, I "suggested" to my (now) wife that we should take a free-fall parachute jump over The Palms, in Dubai. Here are my thoughts as to why a leader in business has to jump first!

Nothing builds character more than the quest for mulled wine!

Last weekend, we ventured into the Strasbourg Christmas Market, known as the “Capital of Christmas,”. What started out as "oh this'll be fun", turned into a resilience bootcamp, but left some leadership lessons, coupled with enough mulled wine to make even your toughest Q4 meeting seem manageable.

This week’s question comes from: LeDon Brooks, VP, Business Services Hub, Schneider Electric

“How can GBS organizations build the trust required to move beyond traditional back-office roles and operate as true strategic partners that deliver enterprise-wide value?”