We spend our lives preparing for a potential disaster, all the while not living life to the full. When a crisis strikes, what do you then do?

Either you can let the crisis run, hold onto your position, trying not to change, or you could use the event as an opportunity to change into a direction that supports future outcomes. In the internal world of a human being, we resist change, mainly because we fought so hard to maintain our current position in the first place.

I recently trained a group at a leading hedge fund in central London. There were a few articles on the wall regarding what they do. It mentioned that there was a charitable arm to the business, which was directly investing a portion of the profits into caring for children in Africa and India.

In the articles, there was debate about whether or not the fact there was a charitable purpose to investing some of the profits; the main attraction of investors to this fund was that it focussed on performance.

You may have noticed the world is having some challenges with us humans at the moment. She is getting a bit hot under the collar, and probably wouldn't think too much about wiping us off her face, like she did with the dinosaurs. Considering that the dinosaurs lived for hundreds of thousands of years, and some still live today, I would consider them pretty adaptable.

Ghandi's famous words lead us to one of the most powerful facts about human nature. To lead others, we must first lead ourselves. He believed that this was a way to create the world we want to live in.

On a personal level, this can be linked to the way you see your world and how you want it to be. You determine your perception of the world around you.

We spend most of our lives working, usually far away from the ones we love and really want to be with. Are you letting the "way things are" at work make you feel cynical, unhappy, run down, unfulfilled? If so, you are not alone, that is for sure.

It is very easy to find yourself in the above situation. Many company cultures support that way, and without intervention it can really become a serious personal problem.

In today's world of fast paced life and business, we have a tendency to try and control more and trust people less. Manage the system, and squeeze every last drop of efficiency out of it, often at the cost of the people that are contributing to the creation of the entire operation in the first place.

It does not take much to see the cost of all of this, just take a look around at the state of the world, and you can see the apathy, reluctance to take personal responsibility for the outcomes of our actions, be it at home, at the office or in the world at large.

After studying Transformational Leadership for a while, you may come to the conclusion that there are a lot of technical things to remember to do, and even then you might not get it right.

So what is the magical ingredient to leading that makes it work? Well first of all, you probably know by now that there is no magic wand for life, or for leadership greatness.

A transformational leader has a profound impact on those they interact with. This is due to the unique and authentic way that they are within themselves and with others.

If you study leadership in general, there has been a progression of leadership types, from trait, behavioral, theory, situational, transactional and then transformational.

Having recently trained a group at a leading hedge fund in central London, there were a few articles on the wall regarding what they do businesswise. It mentioned that there was a charitable arm to the business, which was directly investing a portion of the profits into caring for children in Africa and India.

In the articles, there was debate about whether or not the fact there was a charitable purpose to investing some of the profits; the main attraction of investors to this fund was that it focussed on performance.

Becoming a leader is a fascinating, scary and profound process. Each person has their own unique path to walk. We all have specific strengths and weaknesses that we first need to uncover, and then work on. We all have our own challenges to overcome to become the person that are required to be to successfully navigate our path.

There will be many people that choose not to unlock their inner workings, due to the fact that we are driven by two processes - avoidance of pain and creation of pleasure.