For several years I have been extremely fortunate to be a member of a team of senior leaders who are not interested in playing the ‘Blame Game’. My colleagues have been men and women of great creativity, integrity, humour, compassion and faith who are committed to living their lives in humility and transparency. In the years since this team has developed, I have experienced none of the jostling for position or one-up-manship that can be common in even the best of teams. Open,

Leaders accept the blame, but losers pass the buck. Rick Warren Saddleback Community Church The life of a leader is never easy. All sorts of things tend to happen that are unexpected, and many of those things have the capacity to upset the apple cart in more ways than one. Plans that have been carefully formulated and well thought through can be undone by carelessness, the thoughtlessness of one player in the team or some unforeseen event, and all that hard work has gone to

In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes, as mine see it.- Michelangelo What a fantastic quote… and one that is incredibly powerful, if we allow ourselves to think through what it actually means in the here and now to those of us who are not gifted artists but who are trying to create someth