References
1 . J. Brown, ‘Fire’, The Art and Spirit of Leadership (Trafford Publishing, 2012), p147.
2 . Jennifer Cohen and Jason Gore, ‘Somatic Practice: A Path to Mastery for 21st Century Leaders’, The Mobius Strip (Mobius Executive Leadership, August 2013), p4.
3 . Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz, ‘The Making of a Corporate Athlete’, Harvard Business Review (Harvard Business Publishing January 2001), p122.
4 . I learned the ‘candle blowing’ breath exercise from my colleague Didi Hopkins at Theatre 4 Business.
5 . Walt Whitman, ‘Song of the Open Road’, Leaves of Grass , first published 1855, verse 5, lines 8-9.
6 . Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist (Workman Publishing Company, 2012), p54.
7 . Amy Cuddy, ‘Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are’ (TEDGlobal, June 2012), 15.24.
8 . William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 2 (first soliloquy).
9 . Milhaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Happiness (Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2008). The concept of flow is explored and defined throughout this seminal work.
10 . Walt Whitman, ‘Song of Myself’, Leaves of Grass , first published 1855, verse 51, line 9.
11 . Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby (Granta Publications, 2013), p3.
12 . Franz Kafka, ‘Letter to Oskar Pollak, 1904’, Letters to Friends, Families and Editors (Schocken, 1990), p16.
13 . Walt Whitman, ‘Song of the Open Road’, Leaves of Grass , first published 1855, verse 10, last line.
14 . Gloria Swanson as character Norma Desmond in the film Sunset Boulevard (Paramount Pictures 1950).
15 . Amy Cuddy, ‘Julianne Moore Interview’ Presence, Bringing Your Boldest Self to your Biggest Challanges (Orion Books, 2016), p64.
16 . Anica Louw, Shawbrook Dance, County Longford, Ireland.
17 . Michael McIntyre sketch, ‘When You Don’t Hear Someone’, Facebook Group: Michael McIntyre Fans (2017) 26 July. Available at: www.facebook.com/MichaelMcIntyreFans/videos/when-you-dont-hear-someone-/1441735499181197/ (Accessed: May 7, 2017).
18 . Amy Cuddy, Presence: Bringing your boldest self to your biggest challenges (Orion Books, 2016), p215.
19 . Nely Galán, Self Made (Spiegel & Grau, 2016), p97.
20 . Facebook: M. Angelou@Mayaangelou (2013) 30 January. Available at: www.facebook.com/MayaAngelou/posts/stand-up-straight-and-realize-who-you-are-that-you-tower-over-your-circumstances/10151477761954796/ (Accessed: February 3, 2019).
21 . Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Oxford University Press, 2008), p40.
22 . ‘Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg: Why I wear the same T-shirt every day’, The Telegraph online edition (2014) 7 November. Available at: www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/11217273/Facebooks-Mark-Zuckerberg-Why-I-wear-the-same-T-shirt-every-day.html (Accessed: December 3, 2018).
23 . Maya Angelou, The Guardian online edition (2014) 29 May. Available at: www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/28/maya-angelou-in-fifteen-quotes (Accessed: January 3, 2017).
24 . Cited in Max A. Eggert, Body Language Pocket Book (Management Pocket Books, 2012), p17.
25 . Eileen McDargh, Keynote Speech: ‘Radical Resiliency: A Key to Disrupting the Ordinary’, (International Simmons Leadership Conference, Dublin, 2018).
26 . theatertalk, ‘Theater Talk Legendary Lyricist Sheldon Harnick’, YouTube (20 May 2011), www.youtube.com/watch?v=vufxoUQPNOs (Accessed: February 5, 2019).
27 . Pina Bausch, Speech (Kyoto Prize Award Ceremony, Kyoto, Japan 2007), published courtesy of the Inamori Foundation.
28 . Pierre Jourdan, I Am A Dancer (UK, 1972).
29 . Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho (Calder Publications, 1983).
30 . Martha Graham, Blood Memory: An Autobiography (Doubleday, 1991).
31 . Hillary Rodham Clinton, It Takes a Village (Simon & Schuster UK, 2007).
32 . I learned this exercise from my colleague and collaborator Josie Sutcliffe, Theatre 4 Business.
33 . Nicholson Baker’s advice to keep a journal of ‘the best thing that happened to me today’, cited in Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist (Workman Publishing Company, 2012), p130.
34 . Lucy, Peanuts , Charles Shultz.
35 . The partial logos story is based on a slide deck about brand, created by Boardwalk Leadership and More2Gain, for a women’s leadership programme I collaborated on for Akzo Nobel in 2015.
36 . Raconteur, ‘The Future of Retail’, The Sunday Times , 7 March, 2019.
37 . ‘Building A Vision’ (Leading For Results programme, The Banff Centre), based on John Baldoni, How Great Leaders Get Great Results (Mcgraw-Hill Education, 2006).
38 . William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 1, Prologue.
39 . Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Oxford University Press, 2008), p57.
40 . Drew Hendricks, Personal Mission Statements of 13 CEOs and Lessons You Need to Learn, Forbes online (2014) 10 November. Available at: www.forbes.com/sites/drewhendricks/2014/11/10/personal-mission-statement-of-14-ceos-and-lessons-you-need-to-learn/#6b58af61e5ea (Accessed: September 22, 2016).
41 . Research presentation by Cranfield for HOST: Accelerating for Difference Programme, HSBC, 14-16 February 2017.
42 . Natalie McGrath, The Cause – An Overture of Rebellion and Revolt (Methuen, 2018). Production directed by Josie Sutcliffe, Dreadnought SW; toured the UK in 2018.
43 . Nancy Kline, More Time to Think: The Power of Independent Thinking (Cassell, 2015), p15.
44 . Halla Tómasdóttir, Keynote Speech: ‘Be a Change Catalyst: Lessons for Principled Leadership’, (International Simmons Leadership Conference, Dublin, 2018).
45 . Martha Graham, in a letter to Agnes de Mille, Dance to the Piper & Promenade Home (Da Capo Press, 1982).