Psychotherapy can harm clients Psychotherapy can harm clients is a strong title, and as you will read, it is entirely justified. Over the decades I have seen many harmful psychotherapy practices, which, frankly, ought to be illegal. Here are some. Psychotherapy can harm clients: Creating Dependency We all know why many therapists create dependency; it […]

Inspirational vision; inspirational future. With yet another large company going down amid accusations of corruption, mismanagement and incompetence, we will, yet again, ask why.  Yes, again,  the same answers will be provided; yes, again they will be meet with universal agreement; yes, again, the day after tomorrow ‘business as usual’ will be resumed, and, yes, […]

The creation mistaken. How can you get staff to generate vast numbers of ideas, systematically, and reliably, in real time, on demand? In response to that question many people make the mistake of thinking: “We can generate enough ideas. That’s not where the problem is. It’s in implementation.” Let’s pick that apart. Let’s examine… The […]

Psychotherapy breakthrough ? Psychotherapy is hugely ineffective. Only around 30% of therapy clients improve as a result of therapy. If you have studied the placebo effect you will know that figure. To be clear: therapy is no more effective than a placebo. In fact, in many cases a placebo is more effective. Why is therapy […]

Call time on L and D waste 82%* of leaders say that their organisation does not have the talent to realise their strategy. If you can’t get the talent you need, here’s why: your HR/L and D department. They didn’t deliver last year, they didn’t deliver the year before; it’s time to accept that they […]

Self-responsibility therapy – what is it? Why does it matter to you, as a leader? Why, despite the fact that there are more than 1000 different psychotherapies and counselling schools, do they all achieve the same results? If they were as different as they claim, you would expect wildly varying outcomes. Instead, you find that […]