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.

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.

During WWII, mathematician Abraham Wald noticed something strange: the returning planes had bullet holes everywhere except the engines. What he concluded changed leadership thinking forever.

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.