How uncertainty and risk sharpens leadership skills

How uncertainty and risk sharpens leadership skills

Arran Cruickshanks, MD at MCCGLC, shares how rugby taught him to be a better leader and shares 6 tips for a strong season.


There’s a pretty solid set of timeless principles guiding business management. We all know you need to use strategy to plan, creativity to fire imagination, evaluation to prove the budget spend.

Solid, dependable but often inadequate in a sector dealing with a blur of new technologies against a backdrop of global uncertainty.

I look at it the only way I know how: through rugby. After 20 years of playing professional rugby, I’ve learnt to approach most situations as if it’s part of a pre-season; not always the most enjoyable but it is essential.

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