Posts by Ross Swan

Good leadership is about self-leadership. One of the elements of self-leadership is maintaining a proper lifestyle and maintain one’s health.  How did you get started into lifestyle medicine? Back in the day when I was mentally preparing to be the 3rd generation in the family business, I learnt that my father was harbouring a few…

The first thing in being a good communicator is to be able to listen. Truly listen, and not just listen physically, but with your whole body. In leadership listening with empathy is how you develop trust. When one notices a drop in the listening, or the leader’s attention being occupied with something else, seeds of…

When something bad happens we’re always asking why it happened! Yet when something good occurs we spend truly little time exploring how and why it happened. When the Titanic sank there was the usual why and how. It came down to three key findings: 1. Everyone was convinced this was the best ship ever built…

The analogy here is from my son’s aquarium. Whenever you have a fish tank at home, you’ll notice that in the first month it looks beautiful and it starts looking really horrible after that. Every single month the tank has to be cleaned. As my son outgrew the tank in the house, he started using…