The England cricket team has met with both triumph and disaster in the past few years but it has specialised in the latter. After a series of defeats, one recent head coach, seeking inspiration, took to playing a song by the pop group M People to raise the spirits of the dressing room. The song was called “Search for the Hero Inside Yourself”.

The search continues. And not just among the cricketing fraternity. Leaders of organisations ask themselves if they have the right stuff to succeed. What will it take to inspire their people? Are employees “holding out for a hero”?