Empowering Good teams to be Great!
Confirmation bias, a type of cognitive bias, refers to the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one’s pre-existing beliefs or hypotheses while giving disproportionately less consideration to alternative possibilities. This bias can […]
In order to grow in key markets around the world, there is nothing more important than getting top talent in place through recruiting, developing, and retaining the right people. Two vital questions must be answered in order to effectively target […]
by Donella H. Meadows Thinking in Systems is a fantastic exploration of systems thinking and decision theory, and remains the gold standard. The insights in this book will blow your mind! It’s probably been made clear to you over the […]
How we “Manage risk” AND our “Natural Propensity” to interfere with the process of investment are just two of the ideas in Common Stocks & Uncommon Profits While the stock market goes up and down from year to year, it’s […]
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. […]
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 […]
Conscious Capitalism is transforming businesses and the profitability landscape. John Mackey is the founder of Wholefoods, the largest and most successful Grocer in the US, recently purchased by Amazon. A New Era has Dawned – Conscious Capitalism The world is […]
As a aspiring teenager, wanting to make a difference in the world, I sat 14,000km away on the Central Coast of NSW, as guys like Steve Case lead what we now call the “tech revolution”. As a consumer or early […]
Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises is a great read, by a chap who has been there and survived (a couple of times). There are just a handful of investors who have been able to weather the economic storms of […]
Nudge is the field guide to what Richard Thaler has coined as choice architecture—the deliberate design of decision environments so that “better” choices become the easy, default choices. Written by Nobel laureate Richard Thaler and legal scholar Cass Sunstein, it […]
The Program Sponsor, Chief of People and Culture of a program I ran, reminded me the other day my comments during the final PCG meeting. During the Sponsors closing remarks he congratulating me on my leadership of the team through […]
If you are like me, there is nothing worse than getting a meeting invite knowing the sole purpose is “a status update”. For me, if you want the team to INVEST time in the meeting, it needs to get real. […]
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. […]
If you want your employees to be motivated to do their best, and if you want them to be the most valuable asset on your balance sheet, then let them feel and experience ownership in the organization. The best managers […]
As I consult to Executives, CEO’s and Senior Managers, without fail we will ultimately start talking about a problem that at some point the question of “Why…?”, “Why are you doing that thing that costs so much time?”, “Why, are […]
Value investing – Lessons investing and for Business Peter Lynch ran the Fidelity Magellan Fund for more 20 years, during which time Magellan was the number one ranked general equity fund in America. His books One Up on Wall Street and […]
When you find an organization that survives and thrives over time, it’s usually because managers like you have learned how to adapt to their changing circumstances and sometimes even keep ahead of the changes taking place around them. Managers who […]
When employees pull together to compete in the marketplace, their level of motivation rises proportionately when they understand just who and what they are competing against. Nothing brings a team together like the challenge of performing at higher levels than […]
To succeed in today’s business environment, your employees need to know far more about the business than just how to do their jobs. They need to know how it operates. Influential managers must take the responsibility to help workers better […]
