IBM’s Working beyond Borders
Let me recommend to you this article found on the IBM’s site at http://bit.ly/9IpueB Without better leaders and better employees what will do next? They say: The insights provided by more than 700 Chief Human Resource Officers around the world show how workforce investment is shifting. Companies are beginning to focus more on growth, expanding [...]
Read moreTEC Award
I’m not really into self promotion and I haven’t sort out corporate awards (exclude scout badges?). But I was very pleased to receive the TEC award for ‘top speaker searcher’ this year in Australasia. With 80+ chairs after speakers and having only been a ‘chair’ for about 12 months its a success, and a first [...]
Read moreWanted – Great Leaders
Wanted – Great Leadership. There is a lot spoken about leadership: many books, many courses and in Google, 175 Million results! One simple definition would be that a leader is a person who motivates a group of people to a common goal. But what do they look like? Can we spot the leaders of the [...]
Read moreMarketing -you Personal Brand?
Part of Marketing should be thinking about “Personal Branding’. Personal branding goes beyond strength finding and develops your core from the external perspective. Harvard Business Review on this subject says: Building a strong leadership brand requires that companies follow five principles. First, they have to do the basics of leadership—like setting strategy and grooming talent—well. [...]
Read moreWarning -Exec ‘Out of Order’
I have a theory that most of us are only really (capital R) good at one or two things – and probably at our core, just one. But in practice CEOs and SME directors are expected to be able to read balanced scorecards, coach their staff, understand every financial report, be social media savy, while [...]
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