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 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 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.
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 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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