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Planning your New Year and passion for work: Goleman’s model for emotional...
December holidays once again present the opportunity to pause, evaluate our previous calendar year, and decide on the type of world we choose to create over the next twelve months. As we consider the...
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Making the list: What we can learn from lists of the best and worst CEOs
We all aspire to be the “best”, but this means that there are those who are also the “worst”. Imagine that at some point in your career, after years of hard work and making your way to the coveted CEO...
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Strategic planning: A 10-step strategy planning session framework
The New Year presents opportunity for planning for resolutions for both individuals and organisations. I had such a strategy session recently with a not for profit I work with. I have also trialled...
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Scott’s Fierce Conversations Principle 1: Interrogate reality to measure...
We have a running joke in my house related to certain bodily odours. The conversation goes: “Ugh, what’s that smell?” followed by a standard response of “Mmmm… smells like roses.” The joke is based...
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The 2013 Brisbane flood: An Australia Day tale of three beers
I will caveat that my thoughts on the 2013 Brisbane flood event are nothing like my 2011 flood story. I did not get flooded, and my heart goes out to those who experienced a repeat of a painful event...
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Fierce Conversations Principle 2: Three steps to change and coming out from...
Open the curtain “Pay no attention to what is behind the curtain.” Such can be said about many people and organisations. The curtain is a metaphor for hidden things not fit for public consumption....
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Gartner’s 11 technology predictions for 2013: Do you see relevance, or just...
I recently attended a breakfast where analyst firm Gartner shared their 11 top technology predictions for 2013, grouped in four areas of economics, risk, opportunity, and innovation. Since attending...
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Fierce conversations principle 3: Be here and nowhere else (smartphones...
My review of Scott’s third principle of fierce conversations comes at a time when I am increasingly conscious of the technology distractions around me. While these distractions act as barriers to...
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Anthony Robbins’ five steps to control your life, with a practical sales...
Can you gain control in your life in just five steps? Anthony Robbins says it is likely if you follow practices he outlines in part one and part two of a business executive session. Before we begin I...
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Digital Business Insights research: What 1,595 Australian businesses do online
A new research report from Digital Business Insights reveals exactly what Australian Businesses are doing online and provides information to those businesses to ensure everyone maintains equal...
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Fierce conversations principle 4: Name the problem and stop mole whacking
Mole whacking Having grown up in Seattle, I can relate to the rodent analogy that Susan Scott uses to start the fourth principle of her Fierce Conversations premise. Six-inch dirt mounds were a...
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Mobile strategy: Using the IBRS Whitepaper to cut through the noise
The impact of increased mobility from smart devices is a big thing. It has been listed as one of the four “nexus of forces“ affecting business today, the other three being information, cloud, and...
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The yin and yang of product versus service: Embrace what you do and do it well
Do you provide a product or a service? I recently attended an AIMIA industry event titled “Creating value in digital agencies”, and the product versus service debate was a primary topic. While focused...
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Autocratic versus Democratic leadership: Are you the right tool for the right...
‘When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail’, as the Maslow quote goes. The best leadership is said to be situational, with effective leaders changing their approach to accommodate...
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Fierce conversations principle 5: Trust your instincts (and be the CEO of you)
‘Don’t just trust your instincts. Obey them’, Susan Scott states in principle five of her Fierce Conversations book. The premise behind the fifth principle is that our thoughts can be classified into...
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The story behind Reimagining Narratives: What spirituality could look like
People search for meaning and spirituality. The Christian faith with a population of over 2 billion remains the world’s largest religion. Yet there is a steady decline of Christianity in Western...
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The importance of defining meaning in times of uncertainty
What do you say you do for a day job? Program websites? Build widgets? Manage people? Sell things? Deliver stuff? Cook, clean, care, or create? Do you ever look for meaning behind what you do? Turns...
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What I learned by completing a Master’s degree
I attended my graduation ceremony last week to conclude a six-year journey towards a Masters of Applied Social Science (Management). I have since been asked questions like ‘How does it feel? Do you...
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Fear of loss in organisations: A humble lesson from Zach Sobiech in Soul...
To what extent does fear determine your emotional response? I ask this as I reflect on an impacting story about Zach Sobiech and my own recollection of printer woes. A printer lesson on perspective...
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Meaning and narrative: Jux closes and exposes the truth behind the consumer...
Social media site Jux is shutting down. I am not surprised. The image-focused blogging platform was aesthetically engaging, but perhaps not differentiated from image-heavy WordPress themes or Tumblr....
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