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 moreMy Top Leadership Books
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Read moreIBM’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 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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