business thoughts

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 [...]

How 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 [...]

We are all Weird – ‘reading’ this now’?

We Are All Weird - Seth Godin’s latest ‘book’ “I’m actually listening too it on my Kindle as an audiobook. Thats Weird eh! So a man that has brought physical books all his life (cause he likes them and collects even) in one weekend not only started using a Kindle with downloaded books – but just [...]

Why 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 [...]

Why 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.

Whats holding you back?

I just read a story. Its about a top executive who excels at everything she does. Her latest success was to learn to fly and so she invites my friend to go on a flight. He arrives to see her starting to do all the preflight checks on the aircraft. Its on the tarmac and [...]

Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

YouTube – RSA Animate – Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us.

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 [...]

TEC 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 [...]

Wanted – 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 [...]