Archive for Better Business
Great Feedback needed?
If we are serious about change and moving onward in our Leadership, then its what we don’t know in our behaviour and lives that will make the most differnce. Most senior leaders don’t need more ‘stuff’: more financials, more strategic work etc. Most of this is information that they need to know how to [...]
Read moreHow to be a Leader – deal with drama triangles, the anxiety of others and even Org’s that sabotage themselves
I love these book summaries that are done in carton form. This ones all about being a true leader, being clear about yourself and not being drawn into others anxiety and issues – in the wrong way. I find it useful. It also says to me that we need to know ourselves well to be [...]
Read moreFinding Great work!
More and more I see that finding great work to do is more about my choices and my clarity of direction than anything else. Its about making the right choices and the right connections. Its about spending time on profitable and accessable interests rather than trying to convert near sayers (which we can do, but [...]
Read moreWhy Institutions should listen to the ‘one’
A good talk on why the 80/20 rule leads companies to miss placing their resources on the ‘one’ that will make the difference in favour of what appears to be the sensible investment to the bulk of the respondents. He also shows that what we think is the ‘average’ and thus the right place to [...]
Read moreMore Energy – less time?
A colleague of mine has this quote on her email signature – ‘it takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan‘ (Eleanor Roosevelt) Its mildly irritating isn’t it! We know we should, and we don’t. We know that a well planned day saves energy and yet every day we run like hamsters [...]
Read moreWhy great leaders inspire Action
I’ve loved this talk for a long time and finally posted it. One of those essential talks to understand the current movements in business and the need for us to be great leaders.
Read more‘Why’ you can’t ignore Social media in your business
Mark’s ‘TEC Talk’ is very useful, offering clear insights into the relevancy of Social media for business. You can’t afford to ignore Social Media and his tips are great to enable your business success
Read moreMy Top Leadership Books
Great Leadership books.pdf Download this file Simon O’Shaughnessy simon@carista.co.nz Posted via email from Simon’s posterous
Read moreSeth Godin on It is broken!
Currently one of my favourite videos. An unusual look declaring what’s ‘obviously’ wrong around us BUT we still live with! The challenge is to look at our workplace, my job, my home life and make a change.
Read moreDo we believe in Expert’s? Talk by Noreena Hertz on TED
Innovation in thinking comes from thinking with the help of experts, but not when you just take what they say as it! Future development will depend on us all being able to work outside of our natural thinking and embrace variation.
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