Since the early 1900s, Mount Everest had stood as the ultimate challenge for the world’s greatest mountaineers. Time and time again, the mountain repelled those who dared to climb it. The early expeditions faced brutal conditions. Many climbers perished, including the legendary Mallory and Irvine in 1924.

Over the past 12 months, I’ve had the privilege of working closely with an executive team on a transformative leadership journey. Yesterday, in our final session, the team reflected on what they had learned, what they had applied, and how they had grown—both as individual leaders and as a unified executive team.

An executive was asked; ‘How many people work here?’ His answer; ‘Only half’. He was deadly serious. Gallup tells us 62% of employees globally are not engaged and are merely going through the motions. Think of the cost. The wasted capacity for contribution. The tragic waste of organisational resources and peoples lives.

What is that one thing you most desire? This “thing” is your lion. The lion represents your deepest desires – the ones that awaken both passion and fear. Like staring into the eyes of a majestic predator, achieving this desire feels daunting because it requires something profound: CHANGE.

Do you want to know a secret? Most executives cannot articulate the strategy of their business in a simple statement. It gets worse. Across the entire organisation, no-one else can either! This highlights a fundamental problem with most organisations today …

Great teams are essential to an organisations success. Many factors contribute to building a great team, however 3 concepts stand out. These 3 play a distinct role in creating a team that excels, innovates, and achieves extraordinary things.

So many businesses fail to live up their full potential. They suffer from the gap between what they promise and what they actually deliver. Closing this gap is the most important job of the Executive Team.

Today, 55 years ago Neil Armstrong and the crew from Apollo 11 returned from the moon and splashed safely into the Pacific Ocean. This moment represented a monumental achievement in human progress. But how did it come about?