Empowering Good teams to be Great!
Why are some people and organisations more inventive, pioneering and successful than others? And why are they able to repeat their success again and again? In business, it doesn’t matter what you do, it matters WHY you do it! Start […]
by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin Leadership can sometimes be extreme. This holds especially true if your mission is to secure the city of Ramadi, which, during the Iraq War, was one of the most violent battlefields in the country. […]
Consider this combination: emotional intelligence AND project management. In his book Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers, Anthony Mersino prosecutes the case as to why, for project managers advancing in their careers, Emotional Intelligence is a must. Perhaps that seems like […]
What Are Your Values? Deciding What’s Most Important in Life; How would you define your values and beliefs? Before you answer this question, you need to know what, in general, values are. We define values as beliefs of a person or social […]
The Power of Habit Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change is the title of the fasinating book by Charles Duhigg, helpfully supporting further self discovery and importantly, once you discover your habits, what to do next […]
Mindset How you can fulfil your potential – Carol Dweck is a World-renowned Stanford University psychologist having committed decades of research on achievement and success. I first heard Carol speak on an interview with HBR in 2010 and loved what I […]
“Range” is an Why Generalists triumph in a specialist world, for me, the contest between specialisation and generalisation, has been a very tactile and tangible experience, hence I LOVED learning from David Epstein in his book RANGE. I finished by undergrad, in […]
I first read Stephen Covey’s book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, in July 2012 whilst on a very challenging assignment in Western Australia, inheriting an off the rails $XXXm project, I felt I needed a miracle. That miracle came […]
Have you heard this addage from a sports coach?: “A champion team will defeat a team of champions.” However, as much as we all admire the ideals of teamwork and connectedness there’s also the alternative notion of the “rugged individual” […]
Strategic human resource management is the process of linking the human resource function with the strategic objectives of the organization in order to improve performance.If a global company is to function successfully, strategies at different levels need to inter-relate. Alternatively, […]
Jim Collins is a well-known business author and consultant who has written several influential books on leadership and management. Two of his most famous works are “Good to Great” and “Built to Last.” In “Good to Great,” Collins and his […]
Peter Drucker was a renowned management theorist who wrote extensively on the subject of effective management practices. His two most influential books are “The Practice of Management” and “Managing for Results.” In “The Practice of Management,” Drucker outlines the basic […]
Michael Porter is a renowned strategy expert who has written extensively on the topic of competitive strategy. Two of his most influential works are “Competitive Strategy” and “The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy.” In “Competitive Strategy,” Porter introduces the […]
The late Clayton Christensen was a well-known Harvard Business School professor who wrote extensively on innovation and disruptive technologies. Two of his most influential works are “The Innovator’s Dilemma” and “The Innovator’s Solution.” In “The Innovator’s Dilemma,” Christensen argues that […]
It’s easy to think that some people are naturally very influential, when in reality influence is about skills! We can learn how to increase our influence, and it’s a good thing to want more influence. If we consider leadership as influencing and […]
I have spent the summer diving into, for the third time, a favourite author, Jim Collins. From the author of Built to Last, Good to Great outlines a model for turning a good, average or even mediocre company in to […]
What makes leaders great? Is it their courage? Their business acumen? Their expert knowledge? Their ability to organize? Truly great leaders have a specific blend of skills. But they also possess something else; certain characteristics which are harder to define. […]
Have you ever asked yourself, “Why aren’t more of my employees willing to take risks?” Perhaps it’s because the few times they tried and things went wrong, they were either disciplined or perhaps even fired. Even when employees succeed at […]
The building blocks of excellence are moments – specifically, defining moments. In the 7 Moments… That Define Excellent Leaders book, bestselling author Lee J. Colan tells leaders how to recognize, create and utilize these moments effectively to bring out the […]
Good managers know it’s important to regularly check in with each of their employees, but too often one-on-one meetings feel hurried and disorganized. To make the most of these meetings be more deliberate about how you structure them. First, schedule […]
