thinking

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 [...]

My Top Leadership Books

Great Leadership books.pdf Download this file Simon O’Shaughnessy simon@carista.co.nz Posted via email from Simon’s posterous

Do 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.

RSA Animate Matthew Taylor: Left brain, right brain

Interesting thinking. The balance between thinking styles is a hot topic

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 [...]

Trojan Horses?

I’m trying out a theory. Its that most people don’t do things because they don’t see it, or don’t connect emotionally. And if they don’t ‘get it’ for themselves it does not really exist. So if I want change rather than manipulating them, or putting pressure on them to just do what I want, I’d [...]

E Book from Michael Major on branding

7 Pillars To Build Your Brand by Michael G Major

Caution: Discounting is not the answer

There are two ways to go in selling – cheap and lots, or well priced and valued. Here’s an article and a video that helps thinking getting us to define ‘why’ we sell is a great start. Article – http://bit.ly/9SqXEp Video - http://bit.ly/aISdts Another mistake is to not pay attention to what the client actually wants [...]

Marketing -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. [...]

Warning -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 [...]